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...author of Le Silence de la mer, whose real name is Jean Bruller, spoke at M.I.T.'s Hayden Library on "he Esthetics of Revolt...
...opens You Shall Know Them, a pungent new novel by Vercors (real name: Jean Bruller), onetime French Resistance leader and author of the 1944 novel, The Silence of the Sea. Coming as it does only a few months after French Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...
...December 1941 Bruller and vivacious young Yvonne Paraf (who had connections with the underground) started their dangerous career as anti-Nazi publishers...
...Paris doctor donated 5,000 francs and Publisher Bruller bought the necessary paper bit by bit on the black market. Under the pseudonym "Vercors" he also wrote the Editions' first volume, Le Silence de la Mer (later translated as The Silence of the Sea and published in LIFE Oct. 11, 1943). Working secretly nights and Sundays, Underground Printer Ernest Aulard handset the Editions' first volumes, later managed to obtain a linotype...
...Hand and Bicycle. Completed pages were delivered to Madame Paraf's gaily furnished apartment. Here Bruller and Paraf cut and bound the pages by hand. Two trusted girls on bicycles carried copies to noted French writers and critics; other copies were sent boldly through the mails or passed on to resistance groups for distribution. Hundreds of other type written copies were passed from hand to hand throughout France...