Waar van de laatsten ook het originele werk nog vaak gelezen wordt vraag ik mij af of dat voor de apenplaneet van Pierre Boulle ook geldt. Je kunt zeggen dat het verhaal zijn eigen leven is gaan leiden onafhankelijk van de schrijver zoals dat ook gebeurd is met Frankenstein, Dracula, King Kong, Sherlock Holmes etc. With his customary wit, irony, and disciplined intellect and style, the author of The Bridge Over the River Kwai tells a swiftly moving story dealing with man's conflicts, and takes the reader into a suspenseful and strangely fascinating orbit.ĭe apenplaneet is een overbekend verhaal door de talloze verfilmingen die hierop gebaseerd zijn. Out of this situation, Pierre Boulle has woven a tale as harrowing, bizarre, and meaningful as any in the brilliant roster of this master storyteller. Only the journalist retains the spiritual strength and creative intelligence to try to save himself, to fight the appalling scourge, to remain a man. The scientist is put into a zoo, the journalist into a laboratory. To this planet come a journalist and a scientist. On the planet of the apes, man, having reached to apotheosis of his genius, has become inert. In this simian world, civilization is turned upside down: apes are men and men are apes apes rule and men run wild apes think, speak, produce, wear clothes, and men are speechless, naked, exhibited at fairs, used for biological research. With these words, Pierre Boulle hurtles the reader onto the Planet of the Apes. "I am confiding this manuscript to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race.
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