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Le Silence de la mer
Le Silence de la mer (, "The Silence of the Sea") is a French novel written during the summer of 1941 and published in early 1942 by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym "Vercors". Published secretly in German-occupied Paris, the book quickly became a symbol of mental resistance against German occupiers.
Plot summary.
In the book, Vercors tells of how an old man and his niece show resistance against the German occupiers by not speaking to the officer, who
also dedicated to "ceux qui comme lui s'offrent le magnifique plaisir de se faire oublier (sic)", or "those who like him offered themselves the great pleasure of making themselves forgotten"), and Vercors's "Le Silence de la mer" ( calling him "le poète assassiné", or "the assassinated poet").
Corpus.
Saint-Pol-Roux attempted to create a total work of art. This dream of Symbolist literature consisted of creating a perfect work responding to all the senses