Avec les Alcooliques Anonymes

by Joseph Kessel

14x20. 1960. Broché. 361 pages.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Joseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist. He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator.

Kessel wrote several novels and books that were later represented in the cinema, notably Belle de Jour (by Luis Buñuel in 1967). He was also a member of the Académie française from 1962 to 1979. In 1943 he and his nephew Maurice Druon translated Anna Marly's song Chant des Partisans into French from its original Russian. The song became one of the anthems of the Free French Forces.

Joseph Kessel died in Avernes, Val-d'Oise. He is buried in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris.

Reviews

[Marin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Livre touchant mais qui arrive vite à des limites de reportages et de répétitions

[Jonathan Kogan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Très bien !

[Lili Legendre · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5 en vrai mais j’arrive pas a mettre les demis jpp

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you can read French...this books is worth your time!
Excellent!

[Louis dM · Rating 4 out of 5]

glacant mais une touche d esperance

[Luis Hernández Cano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Los últimos dos testimonios son simplemente desgarradores, brutales!!

Apéndice A. Usé este libro sólo como referencia, lo que leí está vez en realidad fue el compendio # 12 de la revista plenitud que consta de 302 páginas. Y lo califico con 4 estrellas.

[Stephanie]

Well known French journalist goes to the US in the early 1960s to see what this AA everyone is talking about is really about. And the verdict is...

[Alisee Po · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing investigation with a true sense of humanity. An important book

[Etienne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un livre qui devait certainement être plus pertinent et plus intéressant à sa sortie lorsque les AA était encore assez peu connu. J'ai adoré la plume de Kessel et je serai heureux de le relire dans certaines de ses oeuvres plus litéraires. Pour ce livre, je crois malheuresement que les AA sont trop connu, surtout que je m'intéressais d'assez près aux problèmes de dépendances, pour que ce livre apporte réellement quelque chose au sujet. Probablement un livre qui a mal vieilli, mais un auteur que je suis content d'avoir découvert, car son style littéraire semble unique et bien intéressant!