A witty, ironical tale a la Voltaire, full of sharp views about the relationship between men and animals. Boulle depicted a world where humankind has lost its position at the dominant species and apes rule over human savages. The story is set in the year 2500. In the spirit of Gulliver's Travels, a French journalist travels to another planet, where the apes are intelligent and humans are exhibited in zoos. The book differs in many ways from the film. When Boulle wanted to question our superiority above other animals, the ...
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A witty, ironical tale a la Voltaire, full of sharp views about the relationship between men and animals. Boulle depicted a world where humankind has lost its position at the dominant species and apes rule over human savages. The story is set in the year 2500. In the spirit of Gulliver's Travels, a French journalist travels to another planet, where the apes are intelligent and humans are exhibited in zoos. The book differs in many ways from the film. When Boulle wanted to question our superiority above other animals, the film reveals in the climax the past and destroyed glory of the humankind, symbolised by the ruined, half-buried remains of the Statue of Liberty.
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Add this copy of Planet of the Apes (Penguin Modern Classics) to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Penguin Books Ltd.
The apes can drive and fly planes in this civilized soceity. A reporter who is on assignment with his astronaut buddies ends up on this strange planet. He can only speak French, which the apes beleive to be nothing but chibberish. He has to learn the apes' alnguage and teach it to a chimpanzee scientist. Parts of the book are alittle far fetched like how would a reporter be able to reconstruct the broken space ship. The ending is surprising and funny at the same time. This is a great work of science fiction.
