by Vercors · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253003106
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«Le silence de la mer» (followed by «La marche à l'étoile») is the novella by Vercors published by Hachette in paperback (216 pages, in French).
A French family hosts a German officer during the occupation and responds to his courteous speeches with silence: a passive resistance that turns cohabitation into a tense moral standoff. The novella champions dignity in the face of barbarism. This edition also includes «La marche à l'étoile» and other stories of occupied France.
The novella inaugurated Éditions de Minuit, the clandestine publishing house founded by Vercors with Pierre de Lescure; its original publication dates from 1942.
For readers of historical fiction and twentieth-century French literature, especially those interested in the Second World War and the resistance.
Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure.
