I Spit on Your Graves (French: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes) is a 1946 crime novel by the French writer Boris Vian, published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan. The story is set in the United States and revolves around a sexual and racial conflict.
 First edition | |
| Author | Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian) |
|---|---|
| Original title | J'irai cracher sur vos tombes |
| Translator | Boris Vian Milton Rosenthal |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions du Scorpion |
Publication date | 1946 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1948 |
| Pages | 190 |
Reception
editChris Petit of The Guardian reviewed the book in 2001, and called it "dreamily convincing", elaborating: "A main inspiration would have been the slew of Hollywood movies that opened in Paris after the liberation, identified by the French as films noirs. I Spit... is straight noir, but also a work of liberated imagination after four years of Nazi occupation: heady, abandoned, fevered and lubricious. A fusion of prime US pulp and French sado-eroticism[.]"[1]
Adaptation
editThe book was adapted into a film with the same title directed by Michel Gast. Vian had already publicly denounced the adaptation while it was in production, but attended the premiere on 23 June 1959. A few minutes into the screening, he stood up and began to shout out his dissatisfaction with the film, and while doing so he collapsed and died of a sudden cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital.[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Petit, Chris (2001-08-04). "Big in thrillers". The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
- ^ Boggio, Philippe (1993). Boris Vian (in French). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-08-066734-3.
External links
edit- J’irai cracher sur vos tombes[dead link], complete text in HTML, public domain in Canada
- J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, complete text in PDF, public domain in Canada
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