Vercors (writer)

See also: To burn, Vercors

Vercors , of its true name Jean To burn , born the February 26th 1902 with Paris, dead the June 10th 1991 in Paris, is a writer and Illustrateur French, resistant during the Second world war.

Biography of Vercors

Jean Bruller known as Vercors was born from the union of a father of Hungarian origin and a French mother. After studies of electrical engineer, he becomes cartoonist and illustrator in the line of Gus Bofa. One owes him in particular the album for children Patapoufs and Filifers , of André Maurois, and 21 receipts practical of violent death.

Pacifist until 1938, it is mobilized during the Second world war. It enters then the Résistance, under the encouragement of Pierre de Lescure, and takes the pseudonym of Vercors which is the name of a massive mountainous and of a famous maquis. In 1941, it Co-founds, with Pierre de Lescure, the Éditions of Midnight, clandestine publisher and publishes its news there the Silence of the sea in 1943. He is the originator of the logo to star of the Editions of Midnight. He also creates the national committee of writers (CNE) and also takes part in the Mouvement of peace.

In the Silence of the sea , Vercors does not dedicate its book to large resisting or a figure of freedom but to " Saint-Pol.-Russet-red . Poet assassinated ". Saint-Pol.-russet-red is an old man who dies of sorrow in 1940 when its manor containing all its new texts is burnt, shortly after that these same Germans raped his daughter and killed his maidservant. Just like the Silence of the sea wants to evoke a dumb resistance at the edge of the cries, this man who dies broken, almost futilely is the symbol even of the quiet fight of Vercors.

It is also known for a science fiction novel, the denatured Animals , from which the part Zoo or the Assassin philanthropist was drawn. He dies in bets in 1991.

Works

Novels

  • denatured Animals (1952)
  • Angers (1956)
  • Quota or Pléthoriens (1966, with Paul Silva-Coronel)
  • the Raft of the Jellyfish (1969)
  • Wakes (1972)
  • Horses of time (1977)

News

  • the Silence of the sea (1942)
  • Walk with the star (1943)
  • the Dream (1943)
  • Weapons of the night (1946)
  • Eyes and the light (1948)
  • Power of the day (1951)
  • On this shore , I - III (1958-60)
  • Clementine (1959)
  • Sylva (1961)
  • Seven paths of the desert (1972)
  • the Mantrap (1979)
  • Me, Aristide Briand (1981), fictitious Autobiography
  • This day there (1943) (included in the collection of news the Silence of the sea )
  • the Impotence (July 1944) (included in the collection of news the Silence of the sea )
  • the Horse and Death (1944) (included in the collection of news the Silence of the sea )
  • This day (1943)

Parts

Others

  • 21 practical receipts of violent death preceded by a Small Handbook by Perfect Committed suicide , ED. Tchou (republication), Paris, 1977 (1928)
  • Suffering of my country (1945)
  • Portrait of a friendship (1946)
  • More or less man (1948)
  • Steps in sand (1954)
  • Divagations of a French in China (1956)
  • P. PC to take leave (1957)
  • the Battle of silence (1967)
  • Questions about the life (1973)
  • Tender Shipwreck (1974)
  • what I believe (1975)

Illustrations

  • Baba-diene and Piece of Sugar , by Claude Aveline (N.R.F., 1937), illustrated of 30 drawings per Jean To burn. Naive work intended for the training of French by the Japanese.
  • Patapoufs and Filifers of Andre Maurois
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