Rage, Sex, and Jazz: I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan

Nov 9, 2022

0h 53m

★ 6.0

Overview

In 1946, the controversial French writer Boris Vian writes his novel I Spit on Your Graves under the pseudonym of Vernon Sullivan, supposedly a mysterious African-American writer; a work against racism and Anglo-Saxon puritanism whose publication causes a great scandal.

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Boris Vian

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Rage, Sex, and Jazz: I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan

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