Georges Bayle

French writer (1918–1987)

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 [fr] 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 [fr]
Cours de statique graphique, Eyrolles, 1948

Filmography

Adaptation

1955: Gas-oil [fr], 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 [fr], Les Années Série noire vol.1 (1945–1959) Encrage « Travaux » #13, 1992
Claude Mesplède and Jean-Jacques Schleret [fr], SN Voyage au bout de la Noire, Futuropolis, 1982, p. 30.