| French Literature Companion: Joseph Kessel |
Kessel, Joseph (1898-1979). French journalist and novelist whose active life is the basis for much of his fiction. His adventurer-heroes fight in air-battles (L'Équipage, 1923), participate in the Resistance struggle (L'Armée des ombres, 1946), and travel to exotic countries. Belle de jour (1928), later filmed by Buñuel, creates a woman whose desires conflict with her social role.
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| Wikipedia: Joseph Kessel |
Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979) was a French journalist and novelist.
He was born in Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Joseph 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, such as 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 in Avernes, Val-d'Oise. He is buried in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris.
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