![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tarzan of the Apes is never going to be confused with the works of Edith Wharton or Theodore Dreiser, to name just two authors writing during the same era as Burroughs. No less a representative of the kind of author generally viewed as everything that Burroughs was not than Gore Vidal noted the quality of this talent by reminding readers in an essay published in Esquire that making action come to life using only prose is “as difficult for a Tolstoy as” for a writer of pulp fiction like Burroughs. The revisionism has not quite made Burroughs suitable for a much-belated Nobel Prize or anything, but he is at least now viewed more widely and sincerely as a gift writer of action prose. ![]() Once relegated to the lower depth of pulp fiction writers composing stories more on the basis of being paid-per-word than creative stimulation, his greatest and most lasting legacy had much in common with reputation: primal, draped in rags rather than quality haberdashery and, though certainly noble in his own way, also essentially savage and not fit for polite society. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įdgar Rice Burroughs has undergone something of a revision since the dawn of the 21st century. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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