Edgar
Rice Burroughs escribió la serie de Tarzán, pero
también otras series de ciencia ficción, de historia y westerns. Burroughs tuvo la visión de ver la
totalidad del negocio del libro, abarcando el cine, la radio, la televisión y
hasta creando una productora para publicar sus producciones. En
Pearl Harbor,
durante el ataque japonés a la isla, Burroughs
decidió convertirse en corresponsal de guerra para cubrir el frente de batalla
durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial
En vocabulario: Drift.
Para saber: speculative
and hollow earth fiction, the Raft River
Burroughs was in
his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor. Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war
correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World
War II…
Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American speculative fiction writer, best
known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction and fantasy
genres. Among his most well-known creations include Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars and Carson Napier of Venus.
He is also known for the hollow Earth-themed Pellucidar series, beginning with At the Earth's Core (1914); and the lost
world-themed Caspak trilogy,
beginning with The Land that Time Forgot
(1918).
During the Chicago influenza epidemic of 1891, Burroughs spent half a year at his
brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho, as a cowboy, drifted
somewhat afterward, then worked at his father's Chicago battery factory in 1899, marrying his childhood sweetheart,
Emma Hulbert, in January 1900.
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| Burroughs |
By 1911, after
seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler; Burroughs began to write fiction.
Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu
at the time of the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor. Despite his age, he
applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one
of the oldest U.S. war correspondents
during World War II.
Tarzan was a cultural sensation when introduced. Burroughs was determined to capitalize on Tarzan's popularity in every way possible. He planned to exploit Tarzan through several different media
including a syndicated Tarzan comic
strip, movies, and merchandise. Experts in the field advised against this
course of action, stating that the different media would just end up competing
against each other. Burroughs went
ahead, however, and proved the experts wrong – the public wanted Tarzan in whatever fashion he was
offered. Tarzan remains one of the
most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon.
In either 1915
or 1919, Burroughs purchased a large
ranch north of Los Angeles, California,
which he named "Tarzana".
The citizens of the community that sprang up around the ranch voted to adopt
that name when their community, Tarzana,
California, was formed in 1927.
Burroughs died in 1950.
Para saber
Speculative fiction is a broad category of fiction encompassing genres
with certain elements that do not exist in the real world, often in the context
of supernatural, futuristic or other imaginative themes.
The Lord of the Rings, Star
Trek, The Exorcist, 1984, Mad Max, The Vampire Diaries.
Hollow earth fiction: It is a subgenre of adventure fiction, science
fiction, or fantasy which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes
at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface.
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Raft River is a 108-mile-long (174 km) tributary of the Snake
River located in northern Utah and southern Idaho in the United States. The river is named for the fact Oregon Trail pioneers would cross the river with rafts, which was
often flooded as a result of beaver dams.
Vocabulario
Drift: to move slowly, especially as a result of outside
forces, with no control over direction.
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| Tarzan of the Apes, 1914 |
The Tarzan series
Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
The Return of
Tarzan (1913)
The Beasts of
Tarzan (1914)
The Son of
Tarzan (1915)
Tarzan and the
Jewels of Opar (1916)
Jungle Tales of
Tarzan (stories 1916–1917)
Tarzan the
Untamed (1919)
Tarzan the
Terrible (1921)
Tarzan and the
Golden Lion (1922)
Tarzan and the
Ant Men (1924)
Tarzan, Lord of
the Jungle (1927)
Tarzan and the
Lost Empire (1928)
Tarzan at the
Earth's Core (1929)
Tarzan the
Invincible (1930)
Tarzan
Triumphant (1931)
Tarzan and the
City of Gold (1932)
Tarzan and the
Lion Man (1933)
Tarzan and the
Leopard Men (1932)
Tarzan's Quest
(1935)
Tarzan the
Magnificent (1936)
Tarzan and the
Forbidden City (1938)
Tarzan and the
Foreign Legion (1947, written in 1944)
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