![]() Here they were applying to men the very experiments which he had carried out on dogs. ‘All of a sudden, we are not only the least powerful among the apes, but also the least intelligent.’ As Frans de Waal explains in his fascinating introduction, our so-called ‘noble traits’ hold little sway when humans are no longer on top of the ladder. Initially ecstatic to find a lush biosphere with human inhabitants, Ulysse and his fellow travellers are shocked to discover that the pathetic human population is ruled by an intellectually superior civilisation of apes. Après avoir obtenu un diplôme d’ingénieur à l’École supérieure d’électricité, il part vivre en Extrême-Orient : de 1936 à 1939, il est planteur de caoutchouc en Malaisie puis s’établit en Indochine. Set on the idyllic-looking planet of Soros, the story follows three astronauts who leave Earth in the year 2500. But while Kwai is influenced by his wartime experiences – captured and subjected to two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp – the sci-fi classic employs a fictitious premise to encourage a moral debate. The author of The Bridge over the River Kwai, Boulle was already internationally acclaimed when he wrote Planet of the Apes. ![]()
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