Jean Marcel Bruller was a French

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 writer

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 and illustrator

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 who co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit

Les Éditions de Minuit

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 with Pierre de Lescure and Yvonne Paraf. During the World War II

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 occupation of northern France

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 he joined the Resistance

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 and his texts were published under the pseudonym

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 Vercors

Vercors

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Several of his novels have fantasy

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 or science fiction

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 themes. The 1952 novel Les Animaux dénaturés

Les Animaux dénaturés

Les Animaux dénaturés is a 1952 novel by Jean Bruller under his pseudonym Vercors, which was turned into the motion picture Skullduggery, starring Burt Reynolds...

(translated variously into English

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 as You Shall Know Them, Borderline, and The Murder of the Missing Link) was made into a film with the last of these titles, and examines the question of what it means to be human. Colères (translated into English as The Insurgents) is about the quest for immortality. In 1960 he wrote Sylva, a novel about a fox who turns into a woman, inspired by David Garnett

David Garnett

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's 1922 Lady into Fox

Lady into Fox

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. The English translation was nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award

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 for Best Novel

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His historical novel Anne Boleyn

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(1985) presents a very intelligent Anne as having determinedly set about marrying Henry VIII in order to separate England from Papal power and strengthen its independence.

Essays

• La Marche à l'étoile (1943)
• Souffrance de mon pays (1945)
• Portrait d'une amitié (1946)
• Plus ou moins homme (1948)
• Les pas dans le sable (1954)
• Les divagations d'un français en Chine (1956)
• P. P. C. Pour prendre congé (1957)
• La bataille du silence (1967)
• Questions sur la vie (1973)
• Tendre naufrage (1974)
• Ce que je crois (1975)
• Théâtre (1978)

External links

• Profile on Les Éditions de Minuit website