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Re: genre "robinsonade"

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 10:24:49 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, thomas mccormick wrote:

> The name of the genre, of course, derives from Robinson Crusoe. Its use in
> The Swiss Family Robinson (also in Verne's own Uncle Robinson, a kind of dry
> run for Mysterious Island, and his rather satirical piece The School for
> Robinsons) illustrates that it had become a sort of tradition for the author
> to use the name "Robinson" in the story when writing in that genre.

And one of the working titles of "Deux Ans de vacances" was "Un pensionnat
de Robinsons". Also note the titles of other stories, mentioned by JV in
his preface to "Deux Ans": Robinson de douze ans, Robinson des glaces,
Robinson des jeunes filles. Or in the preface to "Seconde Patrie": Le
Robinson des Sables du Desert.

I think that by the end of the 19th century, even if the name Robinson
had ever had another connotation, it would be obscured by the "lonely
island" idea.

Garmt.
Received on Fri 08 Jul 2005 - 11:24:56 IDT

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