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Il realismo di Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and

sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional
autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years
on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering natives, captives, and
mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an account of
supposedly factual events, is known as a "false document" and gives a realistic
frame story.

The story was most likely influenced by the real-life experience of Alexander
Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived more than four years on the Pacific
island that was called Más a Tierra (in 1966 its name became Robinson Crusoe
Island), Chile. However, the description of Crusoe's island was probably based
on the island of Tobago, since that island is near the mouth of the river Orinoco,
and in sight of the island of Trinidad.

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