In its style (simple, precise language, devoid of specific artistic techniques), it refers more to the journalistic genre of “travels” that first appeared in English literature in the 16th century, than to the literary novel, but the presence of an adventure story, a clearly expressed artistic idea ( the preservation of humanity in a difficult struggle for life) and the development of characters (growing up Robinson Crusoe, ennobling Friday ogre, repentance of pirates) makes it a full-fledged literary work. The novel by Daniel Defoe lies at the origins of the novel itself. A symbolic warning in the form of a recurring sea storm and the time of the beginning of the adventure turns out to be nothing significant for Robinson Crusoe. The hero’s parental home leaves on SeptemBrazil, where he lives comfortably for the following years – September 1, 1659. The motive for quitting parental prohibition (parallel with the biblical prodigal son) reveals itself twice in the novel: at the very beginning of the work, Robinson Crusoe was seized by repentance of what he had done, but it is a shame to appear to his friends (including neighbors) again on the wrong path, which ends with a long isolation on a desert island. The time of the novel is Septem– Decem+ the period that the character needs to return home and the story of his unusual adventure. Alexander Selkirk lived on his island for four years, Robinson Crusoe – twenty-eight years, two months and nineteen days. The real trouble of Robinson Crusoe was caused by his unsociable character, the literary one – disobedience to parents, choosing the wrong way of life (a sailor instead of an official in the royal court) and a heavenly retribution, expressed in a natural disaster for any traveler – shipwreck. The work is based on a real story that happened to the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, who served as boatswain on the ship “Senk Por” and landed in 1704, at his personal request, on the uninhabited island Mas-a-Tierra (Pacific Ocean, 640 km from the coast Chile). Its full name is “Life, the extraordinary and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived 28 years in complete solitude on an uninhabited island off the coast of America near the mouths of the Orinoco river, where he was thrown by shipwreck, during which the entire crew of the ship, except him, died, outlining his unexpected release by pirates written by himself “over time was reduced to the name of the protagonist.

One of the most famous English novels first saw the light in April 1719.

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