name: Vercors
birth_date: 1902-02-06 00:00:00
death_date: 1991-06-10 00:00:00
genres: Short Stories, Literature & Fiction, Satire
avg_rating: 3.77
ratings_count: 8718
about: Vercors was the pen name of Jean Marcel Bruller, taken from a French province where Bruller fought during the early stages of the Second World War. During the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s, Vercors/Bruller co-founded the clandestine publishing operation Les Éditions de Minuit (The Midnight Press) and was a key literary figure in the Resistance.