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A well written if horrifically colonial story (bro gets shipwrecked on the way to buy slaves). I felt a sort of debt to read this considering it is the "first novel" and all that. The idea behind my reading of it, as with most classic literature, being a sort of investigative enquiry into the ideas that inform (and have been continually preserved by) the society we exist in today. The seeds of what would become the civilisation we live in today are all in here. Extractionism, racism, expansionism and all the other 'isms'; as well the thorough and almost cultish obsession with personal responsibility. This is interestingly built on through the personal relationship he builds with God throughout the novel. There's a sort of protestant mercantalist spirit that pervades the book. The rise of protestantism of course being tied to the rise of capitalism. All in all there's a lot to unpack in this book. It's a very interesting exposition of European but particularly British attitudes towards the mission of their civilisation (this being colonialism under the guise of christianisation and 'civlising'). Best read as a historical document rather than as a novel.
“Robinson Crusoe,” though, remains something truly special: It belongs in that small category of classics — others are “The Odyssey” and “Don Quixote” — that we feel we’ve read even if we haven’t. Retellings for children and illustrations, like those by N.C. Wyeth, have made its key scenes universally recognizable.... A classic is a book that generations have found worth returning to and arguing with. Vividly written, replete with paradoxes and troubling cultural attitudes, revealing a deep strain of supernaturalism beneath its realist surface, “Robinson Crusoe” is just such a classic and far more than a simple adventure story for kids. A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of Robinson read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up to that moment he had sat content, huddled in his ignorance, but he left that farm another man. There were day-dreams, it appeared, divine day-dreams, written and printed and bound, and to be bought for money and enjoyed at pleasure. Down he sat that day, painfully learned to read Welsh, and returned to borrow the book. It had been lost, nor could he find another copy but one that was in English. Down he sat once more, learned English, and at length, and with entire delight, read Robinson... It was the scene of Crusoe at the wreck, if I remember rightly, that so bewitched my blacksmith. Nor is the fact surprising. Every single article the castaway recovers from the hulk is “a joy for ever” to the man who reads of them. They are the things that should be found, and the bare enumeration stirs the blood. Crusoe has been called a kind of Protestant monk, and it is true that he turns the chance of his isolation into an anchorite’s career. The story is one of spiritual realization — almost half a lifetime spent on contemplation works profound changes, whatever the subject’s religion. We can watch Crusoe become, year by year, a better, wiser man... Robinson Crusoe may still be the greatest English novel. Surely it is written with a mastery that has never been surpassed. It is not only as convincing as real life. It is as deep and as superficial as direct experience itself. Gehört zur ReiheGehört zu Verlagsreihen — 65 mehr Blau (15) Corticelli [Mursia] (62) Dean's Classics (31) Ediciones de bolsillo (366) Everyman's Library (59) insel taschenbuch (0041) Limited Editions Club (S:1.11) Little Blue Books (559) Oxford English Novels (1719) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2013) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2012-12) The Pocket Library (PL-510) Reader's Enrichment Series (RE 112) Tus Libros. Anaya (22) Whitman Classics (2124) The World's Classics (17) Библиотека приключений (I, 1) Ist enthalten inGrote avonturen drieling. Gullivers reizen / Robinson Crusoe / Michael Strogoff, de koerier van de tsaar. von Henk Cornelissen Lincoln's Log Cabin Library: Lincoln's Fireside Reading: The Books That Made the Man...the Bible; Pilgrim's Progress; Robinson Crusoe; Aesop's Fables; Life of Washington von H. Jack Lang Wird wiedererzählt inHat die (nicht zu einer Reihe gehörende) FortsetzungBearbeitet/umgesetzt inIst gekürzt inWird parodiert inInspiriertHat eine Studie überTwentieth Century Interpretations of Robinson Crusoe; A Collection of Critical Essays: A Collection of Critical Essays von Frank H. Ellis Ein Kommentar zu dem Text findet sich inHat als Erläuterung für Schüler oder StudentenAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Rez.: Für die Klassikerreihe "Visuelle Bibliothek" ist Defoes "Robinson" so etwas wie ein Glücksfall wegen der vielen Ansatzpunkte für anschauliche Informationen über Segelschifffahrt, Kartographie der Weltmeere, Piraten und dergleichen. Der in gedämpften Farben zurückhaltend illustrierte Text ist stark gekürzt, räumt aber trotzdem neben den reinen Tatsachen der moralischen und religiösen Selbsterforschung und Läuterung Robinsons relativ den vom Original vorgegebenen Umfang ein, ohne zu langweilen. Stilistisch ist der Text in einwandfreiem Deutsch verfasst. Wie in dieser Reihe üblich, wird die Erzählung ergänzt durch einen biografischen Blick auf den Autor und eine Doppelseite zur Rezeption weltweit bis heute. - Empfehlenswert. Auch für Schulbibliotheken.Die Nacherzählung der weltbekannten Abenteuer von Robinson, den es auf eine einsame Insel verschlagen hat, wird durch viele Informationen über Segelschiffe, Piraten und Schiffsreisen im 17. Jahrhundert anschaulich ergänzt. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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I read Robinson Crusoe as it is one of the classics, and I could not be certain if I had read it as a child or not. Written by Puritan Englishman Daniel Defoe, many consider this to be the first English novel. It was published in 1719, but set in the 1650s to 1680s. The book was a great success and became one of the most widely published books in history.
The story has since 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. It was originally penned under the name Robinson Crusoe and thus mistakenly thought to be a true story.
Robinson leaves Yorkshire as a young man, against his father’s wishes, to go to sea. He encounters a huge storm, is miserable and shipwrecked and swears to never to go to sea again. But after getting drunk with some sailors decides he is born to be a sailor and heads off again. This time he is captured by pirates and forced to become a slave. After a few years of harsh treatment he escapes with a boy called Xury, and despite having had firsthand experience and reason to empathise with the lot of slaves Crusoe decides to make Xury his slave. He sells Xury to the captain of a Portuguese ship and makes his way to Brazil with them where he buys a plantation. Having apparently learnt nothing from his experiences about either sailing or slavery he then makes another voyage to get slaves from Africa for his plantation but is shipwrecked.
Robison finds himself on a deserted island off the coast of Venezuela, probably based on Tobago. He manages to salvage goods off the ship and sets himself to building a dwelling, planting corn, domesticating goats and the like. He also finds a Bible and becomes very religious, repenting for all the sins of his youth. He gains insight into the evils of his former life and behaviour and ponders about whether his castaway life is punishment for his sins, although interestingly never seems to have any regrets about his involvement in slavery, which actually has brought him to this point.
He then discovers “barbarous savages” landing on his island to partake in cannibalistic feasting on their enemies. On one of these visits he manages to free the intended victim, names him Friday, and guess what, makes him a slave. Eventually Robinson and Friday assist a marooned captain to regain his ship from mutineers and return to England.
I would have to say I did enjoy the parts describing Crusoe’s survival and challenges, even though this would have been far more impressive and intriguing if it had actually happened. He did seem relatively fortunate as a castaway to have a ship to plunder for goods and a seemingly endless supply of gunpowder, such that he still had a quantity to give away after 28 years.
On the other hand, although I am used to books from previous eras containing racist and colonial attitudes, and I try to view them in their context, in this instance it was extreme. I have read many other older works of fiction that are nowhere near as flagrantly supportive of slavery and entrenched in their belief in white superiority. In fact not too long after the time this book was authored my children’s ancestors were actively engaged in the anti-slavery movement. I kept on reading, waiting for the moment of insight when he realised that “these barbarous savages” were fellow humans and no better or worse than he, but other than learning to appreciate Friday’s nature, he never makes this quantum shift.
The other thing that was disappointing was the anticlimactic nature of his return to England. There is no description of how he felt, how he was received or anything other than an account of his finances. He goes on to wrap up the significant events of his life in one paltry sentence, "In the meantime, I in part settled myself here; for, first of all, I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction, and had three children, two sons and one daughter; but my wife dying, and my nephew coming home with good success from a voyage to Spain, my inclination to go abroad, and his importunity, prevailed, and engaged me to go in his ship as a private trader to the East Indies; this was in the year 1694.” And off he goes again.
So overall 2.5 stars for me. Respect for penning the first novel, creating the adventure genre, and inspiring the popular imagination about sea-faring voyages, shipwrecks and remote tropical islands. This has spawned many other famous books and films. But the rampant colonialism was a decided negative for me. ( )