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.