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Article: Robinson Crusoe a venir: Gertrude Stein and Roland Barthes.(Critical Essay)
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- The Romanic Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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(Arthur Rimbaud)
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is a novel that has been rediscovered and reinterpreted through successive generations and periods; a variety of artists including Michel Tournier, J.M. Coetzee, J.G. Ballard, Franz Kafka and Paul Valery, to name but a few, have been captivated by the story of Robinson Crusoe. It is a novel of transhistorical persistence, capable of infinitely diverse applications. In this paper I want to reveal the seductiveness that Defoe's story had in two unrecognised instances: Gertrude Stein invokes Defoe's novel at the end of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and throughout Roland Barthes' oeuvre one finds references to ...