![]() The pirate Alexander Selkirk has been called “the real” Robinson Crusoe. In it, the protagonist is a castaway who spends decades on a desert island. ![]() Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe’s 1719 book, is considered by many to be the first English-language novel. In fiction, the stranded setting, wherever it may occur, often an island, is an old one. I suspect those people would say the charm of the thought, having to struggle with just our wits and what we find nearby to survive, depreciates the closer it comes to experience. Most of us won’t live them, though some unfortunate people do. These are extraordinary instances of being stranded. Lost in the wilderness and perhaps even driven to cannibalism. ![]() If there’s something appealing about the notion of being stranded, it no doubt tends to come at a distance – when one is separated from the reality of being left high and dry, safely protected from the reality of the experience by words on a page or images on a screen. ![]()
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