I will spit on your tombs

See also: I will spit on your tombs (homonymy)

I will spit on your tombs is a novel of Boris Vian, published under the Pseudonyme of Vernon Sullivan, published for the first time in 1946 with the Scorpion editions. This book, like several others, was initially published under the name of certain Vernon Sullivan whose Vian was presented in the form of a translator.

The history, like the other stories of Vian under the pseudonym of Sullivan, proceeds in the south of the the United States of America and puts in scene the difficulties of the American Blacks in their daily life vis-a-vis the White. In this novel, Lee Anderson, a black man but with the white skin, leaves its birthplace after the death of his/her brother who was lynched and hung because it was in love with white. Arrived in this other city, Lee becomes bookseller and enters the small local band of young people in lack of alcohol and sex. Its goal is to avenge death for his/her brother.

Far from the style of the other novels of Vian, this account most violent, is believed the most and most representative of the series " Sullivan" where Vian denounces the ambient Racisme and the precarious condition of the Blacks in the south of the the United States.

Shortly after its publication, being regarded as pornographic and immoral, this book was prohibited (in 1949) and its author condemned for insult to the moralities. An edition illustrated by Jean Boullet was published in 1947.

There is an edulcorated version.

Film adaptation

I will spit on your tombs of Michel Gast (1959).

Wink

(I will spit on your) tongues , song of the group Grave of low register (label Small Axe)

Random links: