Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story was perhaps influenced by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "M s a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. The details of Crusoe's island were probably based on the Caribbean island of Tobago, since that island lies a short distance north of the Venezuelan coast near the mouth of the Orinoco river, in sight of Trinidad. It is also likely that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. Although inspired by a real life event, it was the first notable work of literature where the story was independent of mythology, history, legends, or previous literature. -wikipedia

Robinson Crusoe es la obra m s famosa de Daniel Defoe, publicada en 1719 y considerada la primera novela inglesa. Se trata de una autobiograf a ficticia del protagonista, un n ufrago ingl s que pasa veintiocho a os en una remota isla tropical. La historia probablemente tuvo como inspiraci n hechos reales ocurridos a Pedro Serrano y Alexander Selkirk, a partir de donde construir a, con una trama sencilla y aut ntica, un s mbolo del colonialismo, del hombre perfecto y de la moral suprema. Robinson Crusoe es la cl sica novela de aventuras.