I Spit on Your Graves explained

I Spit on Your Graves
Author:Vernon Sullivan (Boris Vian)
Title Orig:J'irai cracher sur vos tombes
Translator:Boris Vian
Milton Rosenthal
Country:France
Language:French
Publisher:Éditions du Scorpion
Pub Date:1946
English Pub Date:1948
Pages:190

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.

Reception

Chris 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

The 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Petit. Chris. Chris Petit. 2001-08-04. Big in thrillers. The Guardian. 2012-03-01.
  2. Book: Boggio, Philippe. 1993. Boris Vian. French. Flammarion. Paris. 2-08-066734-3.