And Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes - A literary prototype

To read a book, well written, is not only enjoyable but also challenging, especially for writers who are always looking for ways to improve their prose.

While the work of popular authors like John O'Hara, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Fowles, who wrote so much in their lives - are now buried in the dunes of oblivion, And Rice Burroughs 'Tarzan remains vibrant and loved. But why? There may be many reasons, but I think the following two have something to do with it:

(1) The presence of a prototype, and

(2) Sentence open.

In contrast to the authors mentioned above, Burroughs bequeathed to posterity a character prototype: Tarzan. This company along with a clever use of English syntax, in particular, his sentence openers make Tarzan a masterpiece. A classic.

A prototype is an original character in literature and one that will serve as a typical example for others to follow. Take, for example, Ian Fleming's super spy James Bond, after his first appearance, an innumerable variety of secret agents, the more ridiculous it became almost sublime. If you apply this reasoning to the authors durable, you can see that there is some validity to my argument.

Truman Capote, in his account Tiffany's-B has not only created the prototype of Holly Golightly, but she has written with great respect for grammar and syntax, ". Typing" call inartistic prose Even if we can credit with Capote ' invention of a new kind of "narrative journalism", which will give him immortality Holly Golightly-walk in front of Tiffany's will.

Authors who create prototypes to achieve immortality. Among the ancients we have the Greek dramatists: Aeschylus (Electra and Orestes), Sophocles (Oedipus and Antigone) and Euripides (Medea). Later, of course, Shakespeare (Hamlet, Falstaff, etc.) and Cervantes (Don Quixote and Sancho). Unsurpassed in Voltaire's satire Candide and Panglos-the young and the credulous pedantic philosopher.

Closer to our times we have Jane Austen. In Mr. Darcy, readers will see first hand the British aristocrat, arrogant, imperious, but kind-hearted. With Lolita, Nabokov portrays the adolescent, not-so-innocent nymphet. Gregor Samsa is not the first? With this character becomes a hero in Kafka a bug, a bug influential because Gabriel Garcia Marquez inspired to become a writer. That of Holden Caulfield? Salinger did not create the prototype of the disaffected teen-rebel without a cause?

Taking a cue from Emily Bronte's Heathcliff, Scott Fitzgerald created Jay Gatsby, a poor boy whose only mission in life was to accumulate wealth in order to win back a lost love. Once again, here we have two strong prototypes. Without a prototype, and without due respect for the sound patterns of English, closes in the dunes

We test this thesis:

Among these authors: Iris Murdoch, Joyce Carol Oates, Grisham, Stephen King, Anne Tyler, Tom Clancy, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Truman Capote, or E Rice Burroughs - Who do you survive the dunes and rivers of amnesia and the ' oblivion? My money is won by E Rice Burroughs, Truman Capote and placed on display on Nabokov. These authors will never be lost in Lethe, the river of forgetfulness ....