Word: bruller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...