![]() ![]() 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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