Georges Bayle
Georges Bayle ( 22 August 1918 - 13 January 1987) was a French writer.
Biography
A populist author, he published Du raisin dans le gaz-oil in 1954 dedicated to Jacques Perret with whom Georges Bayle was interned during the Second World War. The plot is located in the corporation of truckers. The novel was adapted by Michel Audiard under the title Gas-oil directed by Gilles Grangier with Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau.
Work
Novels
- 1954: Du raisin dans le gaz-oil, Série noire #217
- 1958: Les Déserteurs, Collection Blanche, Gallimard
Collection of short stories
- 1955: Le Pompiste et le Chauffeur, Collection Blanche, Gallimard, prix Cazes 1956
Others
- Cours de résistance des matériaux appliquée aux machines, Eyrolles
- Cours de statique graphique, Eyrolles, 1948
Filmography
Adaptation
- 1955: Gas-oil, French film directed by Gilles Grangier, adaptation of the novel Du raisin dans le gaz-oil, with Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau
Actor
- 1957: Burning Fuse, French film directed by Henri Decoin, with Raymond Pellegrin and Charles Vanel
Sources
- Claude Mesplède, Les Années Série noire vol.1 (1945–1959) Encrage « Travaux » #13, 1992
- Claude Mesplède and Jean-Jacques Schleret, SN Voyage au bout de la Noire, Futuropolis, 1982, p. 30.
External links
- Bibliography on the site of Éditions Gallimard
- Georges Bayle at IMDb
