The first model of novel of the English Literature

[ ] He was born in 1660 in London by a NON-conformist family He was a -FORMALIST -SPY -MERCHANT He went on bankarupt and he started to write when he was 60 years old.

‘Robinson Crusoe’ was published Daniel Defoe didn’t say that he wrote the story but he said that he found a manuscript. It was the first time that someone wrote a novel… So he was afraid!

D. Defoe pays attention to the space as a geographical entity Details of the streets, setting and events The narrator used the first-person REALISTC Robinson Crusoe is a REALISTC NOVEL Latitude and longitude

BEFORE THE SHIPWRECK ON THE ISLAND

Robinson Crusoe was born in the city of York, where he was educated; His only desire was to go to sea and leave on a ship; After various adventures, a violent tornado pushed the ship onto an island. It was uninhabited, rich of fruit and trees. One day Robinson saw some cannibals and he attacked them.

During the fight he saved a person, ‘FRIDAY’; Between them there was a close friendship. One morning he saw an English ship He brought Friday with him They went back home to England.

The author underlines all the problems which there were in 18° century for the formation of the modern world. The desert island represents all the contradicitions and obstacles of the «new world» Robinson's life that seemed the drama of loneliness, appears instead as "the happiest Treaty of natural education."