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Before Adam (1907)

af Jack London

Andre forfattere: Philip Jose Farmer (Introduktion), Frank Mayo (Illustrator)

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In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal. The hominid he dreams through is one of the Cave People and the story tells us also of the Fire People, the Tree People, the hominid's love interest and a sabre-cat.

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  AnkaraLibrary | Feb 23, 2024 |
A boy has dreams of an ancestral pre-human past when humans were still evolving to the our present state. Still mostly living in trees the Folk as he called them had very limited language and no technology yet, not even fire. Jack London wrote that we have dreams of falling and of running away because those have been carried down to us from earlier times. The reason we dream we are falling and don't land is because if the dreamer hadn't caught something to stop our they would not have become ancestors. The same with dreams of being chased. Those who were caught and eaten by a Saber Tooth Tiger didn't become ancestors either. In the boys dreams the primitive ancestors moved into caves from the trees and then encountered more advanced human type who had fire and drove them out of their caves. Only a few survived but those few must have become ancestors. I read this as a boy. The second reading tells that Jack London was one of the greatest story tellers and writers. ( )
  MMc009 | Jan 30, 2022 |
A compelling but limited exercise of imagination, Jack London's short novel Before Adam sees a modern man plagued by dreams which appear to be the residual genetic/ancestral memory of his pre-human ape-like ancestor Big Tooth. Through this literary set-up, London tells us this caveman's story.

It is as you would expect from London, the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang: Big Tooth's world is a brutal one, in which a violent death is the natural order of things. In fact, Before Adam was closer to his two famous dog/wolf stories than I expected; Big Tooth is more animal than man. This caveman and his tribe have not discovered fire, nor coherent speech (the lack of dialogue makes this short book slower than it appears). This is a shame, as the book's best moments come when Big Tooth and his companions show whispers of the humans their descendants will one day become: fire, tools, boats, love, companionship, co-operation and social structure. The animalistic stuff has been done better in London's other books.

Nevertheless, few write more concisely or perceptively about nature and 'the law of tooth and fang' than London, and it is fascinating to follow his primordial characters through their adventure. Despite some disappointments to the book (the story ends rather lamely, and there is the afore-mentioned prioritisation of more animalistic than human traits), Before Adam is a worthwhile obscure read from an author who was prolific in his day but is now known solely for a handful of stories. There is an odd feeling that comes from contemplating our caveman past, something that is part of us just "as my father and my grandfather are parts of me less remote" (pg. 12), and London captures it. ( )
1 stem MikeFutcher | Jan 2, 2021 |
"Adem'den Önce"yi okudum. Bu kitaptan önce London'dan Vahşetin Çağrısı'nı okumuştum, kitabı beğenmeme rağmen yazarla tarzımızın uyuşmadığını düşüncesine kapılmıştım. Geçenlerde yazarın kitaplarını incelerken diğer kitaplarının konusu hoşuma gidince 4-5 tane London kitabı aldım. İlgimi en çok bu kitap çektiği için okumaya bunla başladım. Doğru seçim yapmışım, yazar bu kitap sayesinde sevdiğim yazarlar arasına girmeyi başardı.

Kitaptan daha farklı bir olay örgüsü bekliyordum ama bu haliyle de hoşuma gitti. Olay örgüsü karmaşık olmamasına rağmen evrim teorisini edebiyata başarıyla yedirmesi sayesinde yazar övgüyü hakediyor. ( )
  Tobizume | Jun 9, 2020 |
Predates Clan of the Cave Bear by 75 years or so. Same idea, London launches right into human evolution in the 19teens. An amazing work, well-enough done. ( )
  kcshankd | Nov 4, 2019 |
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