Witches Sabbath

Sachs, Maurice

Ballantine Books

The author describes his involvement in the intellectual and artistic life of France and portrays his friendships with figures, such as Jean Cocteau, Andre Gide, and Andre Malraux

Witches' Sabbath

Stein & Day Pub

Witches' sabbath

STEIN AND DAY.

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was "a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral?" He recounts how, as a young man, he befriended Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, both of whom he stole from, as he stole from many others in his life (Sachs would later propose writing a book entitled Confessions of a Thief). He tells of when, in 1925, he converted to Catholicism and entered a seminary, only to be expelled because of his homosexuality. He tells of when he drifted through America, of when he nearly drank himself to death, of his many failed love affairs. In addition to being a compelling, honest portrait of a unique character, Witches' Sabbath is also notable for its engagement with literature. Every period of Sachs' life is marked by his dialogue with living and dead authors; Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, all are featured. Thanks to his lifelong obsession with literature, Sachs developed a style all his own: peppered with keen, acerbic portraits of his contemporaries, sometimes picaresque, introspective and often full of irony.

LGBTQ+ Books

Biographies & Memoirs

Spurl Editions

El sabbat: Recuerdos de una juventud tormentosa

Editorial Cabaret Voltaire

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