Why is that the case? Meyer: Burroughs wrote a tremendous story of development that is still exciting to read today, combining love, adventure and mortal danger. Consequently, we are dealing with a genre mix that offers something of many things. Consequently it appeals to a broad readership. Moreover, the more than 20 novels in the Tarzan series are real page-turners.
Burroughs works with two-stranded plots and a proven cliffhanger technique: you want to know what happens next with the characters, whether they survive, whether the Tarzan-Jane couple finds their way to each other, and so on. In addition, Burroughs provides highly striking situational images, especially in the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan by the Apes. A muscle-bound man swinging through the jungle on vines, carrying a beautiful woman around pressed against his unclothed chest, talking to apes.
These are scenes that are described in detail in the novel and which are also central to all pictorial representations, be it in the comic or in the more than one hundred! So it has a high recognition value, to which the shapely body of the title hero, described as naked in large parts of the first Tarzan novel, certainly contributes.
Published at the beginning of the 20th century, i. The basic constellation that is at stake in Tarzan by the Apes and also in the subsequent volumes is also interesting: the relationship between man and nature.
Man appears as a flawed being who, ao it seems at first, has little to offer in the face of the jungle's adversities. Tarzan's parents, for example, die after being abandoned in the jungle.
Tarzan himself, however, always manages to use his wits and thus save his life and the lives of others. Burroughs repeats this refrain-like in his novels: the thing that distinguishes man from the animal is ratio. That is why man can survive even in an in hospitable or even hostile environment. On 20 June , the novel "Tarzan the Terrible" is published as the 8th volume of the Tarzan series. In it, Tarzan encounters monsters of the grey prehistoric times and tames a huge monster, the so-called Gryf.
What fascinates the reader about such a parallel world? Meyer: The Tarzan volumes are ultimately based on a real historical situation, that is the colonisation of the African continent by the English: Tarzan's parents, Lord and Lady Greystoke, set off by ship on an inspection visit to a colony on the west coast of Africa. The crew mutinies and abandons the couple on the beach of an uninhabited island.
They survive shortly until the birth of their son. A mother monkey who has lost her cub takes care of the little one. The rest is familiar and from this point on the narrative takes a turn into the fantastic. The 26 books that Borroughs wrote about Tarzan between and take us to various locations, most of which seem exotic to European readers.
For example, to a forgotten valley where dinosaurs live. Michael Crichton with his novel Lost World may have been inspired by this! Today, we still enjoy the mental game of the question "What if? It is a characteristic of fantastic literature to transcend or alienate familiar everyday perceptions. Something extraordinary becomes recognisable. There are theories according to which fantastic literature is especially demanded in times of upheaval.
This could also be said of the first Tarzan volumes. My theory on this is that the comprehensive mechanisation, globalisation, industrialisation, colonisation, which had a profound impact on all Western states at the beginning of the 20th century, promoted the longing for nature, for its secrets, for a 'wild' counterworld in a special way. They risk their lives just to save and protect an everyday stranger.
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