Historical Figure
Jean Bruller
1902–1991
French writer and illustrator
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Biography
Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.
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Published Le Silence de la mer under the pen name Vercors. A novella about a cultured German officer billeted in a French home. Printed on a clandestine press he co-founded, Les Editions de Minuit. The most celebrated work of the French Resistance.
Ran the underground publishing house throughout the occupation. Over 25 titles printed in secret. Authors used pseudonyms. Discovery meant execution.
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scathing in tone, painting a miserable portrait of a literary artist imprisoned ...
p, another film Faulkner worked on. Faulkner was highly critical of what he found in Hollywood, and he wrote letters that were "scathing in tone, painting a miserable portrait of a literary artist...
One day I seemed to shut the door between me and all publisher's addresses and b...
in a much more experimental style. In describing the writing process for this work, Faulkner later said, "One day I seemed to shut the door between me and all publisher's addresses and book lists. I...
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ntroversially, he is noted to have once stated: "Television is for niggers". On the subject, it was noted that "for many white southerners nothing changed with the end of slavery except slavery." In...
was in dire need of money and had no idea how to get it...So he went to Hollywoo...
oviegoer and had reservations about working in the movie industry. As André Bleikasten comments, he "was in dire need of money and had no idea how to get it...So he went to Hollywood." It has been...
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