Vercors

Jean Bruller, who signed himself Vercors, was born on 26 February 1902; his father had come from Hungary. An illustrator, he published albums of satirical drawings before the war. Under the Occupation, he founded with Pierre de Lescure a clandestine publishing house, the Éditions de Minuit, and joined the Resistance; his texts of this period appeared under the pseudonym he kept afterwards. After the war, he continued a career as a novelist, and died on 10 June 1991.

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• NarrativeThe Silence of the SeaLe Silence de la merVercors · 1942Literature