Fortune square / Joseph Kessel Fifty years later I read with passion this wonderful Drafting exotic novel published in 1932, one of the most successful of Joseph Kessel with "Les Cavaliers". Recall that Kessel was a great traveler, always on the lookout for adventure, keen observer of human behavior, a great journalist reporter. He was elected to French Academy in 1962. He is the author among others of "Lion" and singing supporters (with his nephew Maurice Druon). In the magnificent and wild landscapes of Yemen and the Horn of Africas, Kessel takes us into a manly adventure, an epic, inspired by his meeting with the author in Sanaa Hakimoff with a Russian adventurer and Henry Monfreid who lived in these 1911 to 1947 regions. In a beautiful style, he describes the arrival dIgricheff Kyrgyz, the invincible hero, Manakha in Yemen: "Large and giant slabs made of the ruined roadway saccrochait the prodigious wall in nobly designed laces. Caravans plodded on it, black camels which on soft bedding, wearing veiled women, negro slaves laden with burdens, small donkeys ridden by old men with green turbans, ancient pilgrims from Mecca, lords escorted dhommes weapons , timid Jews in biblical figures? One felt of great and proud city The approach which the people spread through ancient roadway that dincurie centuries navaient not yet defeated. " The meeting with dIgricheff Mordhome and Philippe Lozère a turning point in the novel, Mordhom becoming the dominant character. His confession to Philip mark a crucial point in the story, a reflection on the adventure of those who have chosen freedom. On cross traffic between Djibouti and weapons lÉthiopie, our three heroes will run adventure in the sun burnt lands. Occasional characters! The beautiful friendship between Philippe Mordhom and then used as the basis for a great journey through the desert of black stones in the back country of Somalia. Splendid. A devour with gusto.
