biography
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Vercors
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pseudonym of Jean Bruller
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pronunciation:
[vairkaw(r)]
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| lived:
| (1902–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Paris, France. He began in 1928 with the sketches Vingt-et-une Recettes pratiques de Mort violente, but gained fame with his short story Le Silence de la mer, the first finished work to be printed secretly (20 Feb 1942) by the Editions de Minuit. Later books include La Marche à l'Etoile (1943), Les Armes de la nuit (1947), Le Radeau de la Méduse (1967), and a biography, Moi, Aristide Briand (1981). From Animaux dénaturés (1952) he made a comedy, Zoo ou l'Assassin Philanthrope (1963). He took his pseudonym from le Vercors, an area which was a centre for the resistance during World War 2. |
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