Robinson Crusoe

English language

Published Dec. 30, 1994

ISBN:
978-0-14-062015-3
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Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer) – a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad, roughly resembling Tobago, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (now part of Chile) which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966.: 23–24 Despite its simple narrative style, Robinson Crusoe was well received …

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El basquecraft del siglo XVII si basquecraft fuera inglés (y racista)

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Leído por curiosidad. Hay que distanciarse mucho del texto para disfrutarlo, porque tanto el estilo, los ritmos, los agujeros (avisa de que pasarán cosas que luego no pasan) y evidentemente la forma de ver el mundo, ahora son chocantes y llegan a ser muy desagradables: es el colonialismo hecho libro. Ahora, aparte de esto, me ha gustado muchísimo la parte en la que Robinson está solo en la isla y describe cómo se las apaña para sobrevivir, además de sus movidukis mentales; eso es muy interesante. Pero a partir del momento en el que eso se termina, se me ha hecho bastante pesado :__)

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