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Boileau-Narcejac is the pen name of Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud, a French crime-writing duo who created the genre of psychological suspense. They wrote 43 novels, 100 short stories and 4 plays, and their works were adapted into films by Clouzot and Hitchcock.
The Living and the Dead (also known as Vertigo) is a 1954 psychological mystery novel by Boileau-Narcejac, originally published in French as D'entre les morts (lit. ' "From Among the Dead" '). It served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo.
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Biography. Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated.
Pierre Boileau and Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac) were French authors who specialized in police stories. They collaborated as "Boileau-Narcejac," with plots from Boileau. Narcejac provided most of the atmosphere and characterisations in each novel.
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Nov 13, 2015 · Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac enjoyed a spectacularly successful joint career in their native France (Hitchcock’s masterpiece Vertigo was based on their novel The Living and the Dead). She...
Originally published in 1954 under the title D'entre les morts by French author team Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac and made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1958 classic film adaptation, Vertigo counts as one of the greatest psychological thrillers, ever.
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French author who collaborated with his countryman, Pierre Ayraud (aka Thomas Narcejac), to write crime fiction as Boileau-Narcejac. In 1938 he was awarded on of the most important literary awards in France the Prix du Roman d'Aventures , for Le Repos de Bacchus .
