Robinson Crusoe is a novel written by Daniel Defoe. The book was first published on April 25, 1719.
Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist, was born in a middle-class family and spent his life traveling around the world.
On a voyage to Africa, I was caught in a storm and drifted to a deserted island, where I began to live in isolation.
With tenacious will and unremitting efforts, he survived tenaciously on the desert island and returned to his hometown after 28 years, 2 months and 19 days.
This novel was written by Defoe inspired by a real story at that time. In September 1704, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk quarreled with the captain.
Abandoned by the captain in the Atlantic Ocean and living on a desert island for four years and four months, he was rescued by Captain Woods Rogers.
Defoe is based on the legend of Selkirk.I pour my many years'experience and experience on the sea into the characters.
and make full use of my rich imagination to carry out literary processing.Robinson became not only the hero of the middle and small bourgeoisie at that time.
but also the first idealized new bourgeoisie in Western literature.After many years of publication.
the novel has been translated into many languages and widely spread all over the world. It has been adapted into movies and TV dramas for many times.
中文翻译:
《鲁滨逊漂流记》是英国作家丹尼尔·笛福的一部长篇小说。该书首次出版于1719年4月25日。该作主要讲述了主人公鲁滨逊·克鲁索(Robinson Crusoe)出生于一个中产阶级家庭。
一生志在遨游四海。一次在去非洲航海的途中遇到风暴,只身漂流到一个无人的荒岛上,开始了段与世隔绝的生活。
他凭着强韧的意志与不懈的努力,在荒岛上顽强地生存下来,经过28年2个月零19天后得以返回故乡。
这部小说是笛福受当时一个真实故事的启发而创作的。1704年9月,一名叫亚历山大·塞尔柯克的苏格兰水手与船长发生争吵。
被船长遗弃在大西洋中,在荒岛上生活4年4个月之后,被伍兹·罗杰斯船长所救。笛福便以塞尔柯克的传奇故事为蓝本,把自己多年来的海上经历和体验倾注在人物身上。
并充分运用自己丰富的想象力进行文学加工,使“鲁宾逊”不仅成为当时中小资产阶级心目中的英雄人物。
而且成为西方文学中第一个理想化的新兴资产者。该小说发表多年后,被译成多种文字广为流传于世界各地,并被多次改编为电影和电视剧。
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创作背景:
Defoe lived in an era when British capitalism began to develop on a large scale. In 1702, he was arrested for publishing Shortcuts to Eliminate Different Sects.
which satirized the government's religious policy.He was sentenced to shackles three times. After his release from prison.
he edited newspapers and magazines, wrote many political and economic pamphlets, and was arrested three times for speech relations.
In 1719, Defoe published his first novel Robinson Crusoe. The novel is based on the real experience of Alexander Selkirk on a desert island.
According to the British magazine at that time, in April 1704, Selkirk rebelled at sea and was abandoned by the captain on an island called Massachel in Juan-Fernandez.
Islands, more than 900 kilometers off the coast of Chile.Four years and four months later, he was found and rescued by the navigators. At that time.
Selkirk had forgotten human language and completely turned into a savage. Inspired by this incident, Defoe conceived Robinson's story.
But in the process of the novel's creation, Defoe created Robinson's image from his own perception and feeling of the times.
with the spirit of adventure and enterprising in the rising period of the bourgeoisie and the spirit of colonialism in the 18th century.
中文版:
笛福生活的时代,正是英国资本主义开始大规模发展的年代。1702年,他发表《消灭不同教派的捷径》。
讽刺政府的宗教政策,因而被捕,并被判处枷示三次。出狱后,从事编辑报刊,还写了不少政治、经济方面的小册子,因言论关系又曾三次被捕。
1719年,笛福发表了他的第一部小说《鲁滨逊漂流记》。这部小说是以亚历山大·赛尔柯克在荒岛上的真实经历为原型的。
据当时英国杂志报导:1704年4月,赛尔柯克在海上叛变,被船长遗弃在距智利海岸900多公里的胡安一费尔南德斯群岛中的一个叫马萨捷尔的小岛上。
4年零4个月后被航海家发现而获救。那时,赛尔柯克已忘记了人的语言,完全变成了一个野人。笛福受这件事的启发,构思了鲁滨逊的故事。
但在小说的创作过程中,笛福从自己对时代的观感和感受出发,以资产阶级上升时期的冒险进取精神和18世纪的殖民精神塑造了鲁滨逊这一形象。
参考资料来源:百度百科-鲁滨逊漂流记
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The famous story of Robinson Crusoe can be divided into three parts: Robinson’s youth and the time up to his shipwreck; his twenty-eight years on an uninhabited island; his lie and adventures after being rescued from the island. Published in 1719, Defoe places his story in the 17th century in England, north Africa, Brazil, an island off the coast of Venezuela and back to Europe.
The first part of the novel relates that, against the advice of his father, Robinson wishes to pursue his livelihood by going to sea. He does so and after a false start has some success but a third voyage ends in slavery. He eventually escapes and is helped to Brazil where he becomes a successful plantation owner. He embarks on a slave gathering expedition to West Africa but is shipwrecked off the coast of Venezuela in a terrible storm.
The bulk of the novel attends to Robinson’s life on the island —how he accomplishes his survival and even establishes his "kingdom"; how he moves from a frantic state of discontent to one of resignation and contentment; how he meets Friday and, finally, how he leaves the island.
Though anticlimactic, the third part of the novel traces Robinson’s securing of wealth through the honesty and loyalty of friends, his return to England, travels through the continent and a last trip to his island to see how those he left there fared
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Robinson Crusoe is a youth of about eighteen years old who resides in Hull, England. Although his father wishes him to become a lawyer, Crusoe dreams of going on sea voyages. He disregards the fact that his two older brothers are gone because of their need for adventure. His father cautions that a middle-class existence is the most stable. Robinson ignores him. When his parents refuse to let him take at least one journey, he runs away with a friend and secures free passage to London. Misfortune begins immediately, in the form of rough weather. The ship is forced to land at Yarmouth. When Crusoe's friend learns the circumstances under which he left his family, he becomes angry and tells him that he should have never come to the sea. They part, and Crusoe makes his way to London via land. He thinks briefly about going home, but cannot stand to be humiliated. He manages to find another voyage headed to Guiana. Once there, he wants to become a trader. On the way, the ship is attacked by Turkish pirates, who bring the crew and passengers into the Moorish port of Sallee. Robinson is made a slave. For two years he plans an escape. An opportunity is presented when he is sent out with two Moorish youths to go fishing. Crusoe throws one overboard, and tells the other one, called Xury, that he may stay if he is faithful. They anchor on what appears to be uninhabited land. Soon they see that black people live there. These natives are very friendly to Crusoe and Xury. At one point, the two see a Portuguese ship in the distance. They manage to paddle after it and get the attention of those on board. The captain is kind and says he will take them aboard for free and bring them to Brazil.
Robinson goes to Brazil and leaves Xury with the captain. The captain and a widow in England are Crusoe's financial guardians. In the new country, Robinson observes that much wealth comes from plantations. He resolves to buy one for himself. After a few years, he has some partners, and they are all doing very well financially. Crusoe is presented with a new proposition: to begin a trading business. These men want to trade slaves, and they want Robinson to be the master of the tradepost. Although he knows he has enough money, Crusoe decides to make the voyage. A terrible shipwreck occurs and Robinson is the only survivor. He manages to make it to the shore of an island.
Robinson remains on the island for twenty-seven years. He is able to take many provisions from the ship. In that time, he recreates his English life, building homes, necessities, learning how to cook, raise goats and crops. He is at first very miserable, but embraces religion as a balm for his unhappiness. He is able to convince himself that he lives a much better life here than he did in Europe--much more simple, much less wicked. He comes to appreciate his sovereignty over the entire island. One time he tries to use a boat to explore the rest of the island, but he is almost swept away, and does not make the attempt again. He has pets whom he treats as subjects. There is no appearance of man until about 15 years into his stay. He sees a footprint, and later observes cannibalistic savages eating prisoners. They don't live on the island; they come in canoes from a mainland not too far away. Robinson is filled with outrage, and resolves to save the prisoners the next time these savages appear. Some years later they return. Using his guns, Crusoe scares them away and saves a young savage whom he names Friday.
Friday is extremely grateful and becomes Robinson's devoted servant. He learns some English and takes on the Christian religion. For some years the two live happily. Then, another ship of savages arrives with three prisoners. Together Crusoe and Friday are able to save two of them. One is a Spaniard; the other is Friday's father. Their reunion is very joyous. Both have come from the mainland close by. After a few months, they leave to bring back the rest of the Spaniard's men. Crusoe is happy that his island is being peopled. Before the Spaniard and Friday's father can return, a boat of European men comes ashore. There are three prisoners. While most of the men are exploring the island, Crusoe learns from one that he is the captain of a ship whose crew mutinied. Robinson says he will help them as long as they leave the authority of the island in his hands, and as long as they promise to take Friday and himself to England for free. The agreement is made. Together this little army manages to capture the rest of the crew and retake the captain's ship. Friday and Robinson are taken to England. Even though Crusoe has been gone thirty-five years, he finds that his plantations have done well and he is very wealthy. He gives money to the Portuguese captain and the widow who were so kind to him. He returns to the English countryside and settles there, marrying and having three children. When his wife dies, he once more goes to the sea.
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself, or simply Robinson Crusoe, is a novel by Daniel Defoe. First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.The story was likely influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. However, 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, and in sight of the island 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.