introduccion

The myth of Robinson has also atemporary valid dimensions for any place and time. As in any other case it is evoked in this novel the human being deep solitude. And this aspect that we will discuss later on, is general and common to all the human circumstances, although it is certain that some cultures foment it and others spread to muffle it. Also the elementary things, the simplicity and the concretion of how many tasks Crusoe should carry out in the island are experiences that we all can understand and that affect us to all and that all of us in a way or another share. Besides being Robinson Crusoe a myth at the same time incrusted in a context and free of him, it is triply a representative book, because inside the English arts it is the first clear and defined case in which we can speak of a novel. Robinson Crusoe is, therefore, one of these literary successes in which a quantity of enough sources of interest is conjugated as making the book concern to all the countries, to all the generations and to all the individuals that read it. When we read Robinson Crusoe it is significant. But the most important thing is its author.Although he was at first destined by his family for being a clergyman of the dissident Church, Defoe decided not to follow this destination, although his interest in religious matters was always very considerable. A prove of this is the numerous writings that he publishes from 1698 on these questions, as well as the tone that he adopts in most of his writings and in the pages of their magazine The Review, in occasions more characteristic of a preacher than of a journalist. His first and main activity was the trade and the industry and it is extraordinary the perfection with which he ended up knowing the different aspects of the commercial and industrial activities,judging by his writings on these matters that he begins to publish from he was forty. His practical aptitudes for the trade were without doubt big, although they were also his intellectual and speculative qualities. Anyway, Defoe was ruined totally in two occasions. His interest for the trade is of great importance for his literary career because it stimulates him to develop his enormous liking for trips and for the remote countries and it allows him to be made with experiences in which he will be able to base later on with stability and solidity his literary inventions.The other great nucleus that centers the Defoe's interests was politics. Defoe is in principle member of the Whig Party, just as he demonstrates this in his document An Essay upon Projects published in 1698, where also he demonstrates his extraordinary modernity. In this document he highlights his practical

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