Jean Bruller
Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.
Born to a Hungarian-Jewish father, he joined the Resistance during the World War II occupation of northern France and his texts were published using the pseudonym Vercors.
Several of his novels have fantasy or science fiction themes. The 1952 novel Les Animaux dénaturés was made into the movie Skullduggery featuring Burt Reynolds and Susan Clark, and examines the question of what it means to be human.
Colères is about the quest for immortality. In 1960 he published Sylva, a novel about a fox who becomes a woman, inspired by David Garnett's novel Lady into Fox. The English-language version, translated by his wife Rita Barisse, was a finalist for the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
His historical novel Anne Boleyn presents a very intelligent Anne as having determinedly set about marrying Henry VIII of England in order to separate England from Papal power and strengthen England's independence.
Essays
- La Marche à l'étoile
- Souffrance de mon pays
- Portrait d'une amitié
- Plus ou moins homme
- Les pas dans le sable
- Les divagations d'un français en Chine
- P. P. C. Pour prendre congé
- La bataille du silence
- Questions sur la vie
- Tendre naufrage
- Ce que je crois
- ''Théâtre''