Le Propre de l'homme

by Robert Merle

Un couple de chercheurs adopte Chloé, une chimpanzée qu'ils élèvent au milieu de leurs propres enfants. Relation idyllique qui, pourtant, va brusquement changer quand Chloé devient pubère et adulte...

Genres: Science Fiction, France, French Literature

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Born in Tebessa located in ,what was then, the French colony of Algeria. Robert Merle and his family moved to France in 1918. Merle wrote in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote. He has also written a 13 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictitious Protestant doctor turned spy, he went so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable.

His novels Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal, 1967), a stark Cold War satire inspired by John Lilly's studies of dolphins and the Caribbean Crisis, and Malevil (1972), a post-apocalyptic story, were both translated into English and filmed, the former as Day of the Dolphin. The film The Day of the Dolphin bore very little resemblance to Merle's story.

He died of a heart attack at his home La Malmaison in Grosrouvre near Paris.

Reviews

[Hana]

Výlučná vlastnost člověka

[ambrsrk]

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[Cécile]

Pas aussi bien que Un Animal Doué de Raison. S'étire un peu trop pour une réflexion et une histoire qui manquent toutes deux de profondeur.

[Bulcsú Pékh]

I would recommend this book for 12-20 year olds. Itt is a good story about the connection men and animals can build, though I prefer Jack London's

stories.

[DaViD´82]

Od Merleho jsem si tak navykl na těžká nadčasová témata, až mě touto nekonfliktní selankou o „farmářském“ soužití jedné rodiny se šimpanzicí vlastně dosti překvapil. Mile.

[Ritattoo]

Nagyon könnyed, közvetlen Merle stílusa, olvastatja magát. A történet egyenletesen halad, minden szempont világos, de a narrátor a fővonal.