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Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller (26 February 1902 – 10 June 1991) was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing companyLes Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.
Born to aHungarian-Jewish father,[1][2] he joined theResistance during the World War II occupation of northern France and his texts were published using the pseudonymVercors (though he used this name for works published before the 1944Battle of Vercors).
Several of his novels havefantasy orscience fiction themes. The 1952 novelLes Animaux dénaturés (translated into English variously asYou Shall Know Them,Borderline, andThe Murder of the Missing Link) was made into the movieSkullduggery (1970) featuringBurt Reynolds andSusan Clark,[3] and examines the question of what it means to be human.
Colères (translated into English asThe Insurgents) is about the quest for immortality.[4] In 1960 he publishedSylva, a novel about afox who becomes a woman, inspired byDavid Garnett's novelLady into Fox (1922). The English-language version, translated by his wifeRita Barisse, was a finalist for the 1963Hugo Award for Best Novel.[5]
His historical novelAnne Boleyn (1985) presents a very intelligent Anne as having determinedly set about marryingHenry VIII of England in order to separate England from Papal power and strengthen England's independence.
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