I Spit on Your Graves

For the 1978 film, see I Spit on Your Grave.

I Spit on Your Graves

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

I Spit on Your Graves (Template:Lang-fr) 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[.]"

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 suddenly collapsed and died from sudden cardiac death. The Ambulance crew and doctor that arrived on the scene failed to revive him.

See also

• 1946 in literature
• 20th-century French literature
• Hardboiled

External links

• J’irai cracher sur vos tombes, complete text in HTML, public domain in Canada
• J'irai cracher sur vos tombes, complete text in PDF, public domain in Canada