A gifted animal of reason

a gifted animal of reason , appeared in 1967, is a Romance political of Anticipation (near in time) of the writer French Robert Merle.

Summary

With the the United States, many scientists work on the communication with the Dauphin S, within the framework of overall military research of the Cold war. These studies succeed and the team of Doctor Sevilla manages to learn the English with a couple from dolphins. However, the military fact and the ideological context take the top, in the palpable risk of the third World war.

The work of the author

a gifted animal of reason is based on actual facts at the time of the drafting of the novel, so much scientists (work on the communication with the dolphins) that geopolitical (the Guerre of Vietnam).

A prophetic work

Passages of this book strike by their clearness in the light of the events which were to be held in Iraq nearly 30 years later. An example:

“ When it is thought that the United States holds in their atomic arsenals what to pulverize not only all their enemies, but all the planet - themselves included/understood -, one is surprised persistence of such a delirious fever obsidionale at the most powerful people of the ground. There too, there is a serious symptom, because the idea of the war, and even of a war of aggression, can be one day allowed without resistance by a population thus conditioned, for little that it is presented to him as a preventive war against an enemy who prepares to destroy it. ”

Adaptation

The film was adapted to the cinema in 1973 by Mike Nichols, under the title the Day of the dolphin .

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