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April 25,2025
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Robinson Crusoe, a suicidal businessman with sociopathic tendencies, obsessively tries to recreate society when he's shipwrecked. He grows increasingly paranoid; by the time he finally reunites with another human, he's murderously insane.
April 25,2025
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تقریبا شش سال پیش این کتاب رو خوندم (نشر افق)که متاسفانه خیلی خلاصه شده بود و اصلا به دلم نچسبید
( بعد از خوندن این کتاب تصمیم گرفتم هیچ وقت کتاب خلاصه شده نخونم )
این نمره رو به نشر و ترجمه میدم نه به کتاب
April 25,2025
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This tale was first published in 1719, and was one of the earliest example of a fictionalized account of possibly real events. I recall that the first time I read it, I was fascinated by the very long titles for every chapter, and somewhat put off by the archaic style.

I still highly recommend this book as a glimpse back into the roots of novels, as well as being a great tale.
April 25,2025
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Tarihi değeri edebi değerinden önde giden bir kitap. Bir macera romanı olsa da içeriğinin şu andaki genel değer yargılarıyla uyuştuğu söylenemez. O zamanki "modern" dünya vatandaşlarının "vahşi" dünyaya bakış açısını iyi yansıtıyor (belki de bu bakış açısını gerekçelendiriyor).

Robinson yaşadığı maceralar nedeniyle çocukların ilgisini çekebilir, ancak romanın bazı unsurları çok uygun olmadığından çocuklar için sadeleştirilmiş metinleri tercih etmek gerekebilir.
April 25,2025
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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
Robinson Crusoe is, of course, a classic novel written 300 years ago. It is surprisingly inventive, with such detail about trying to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island that one would expect the author had survived such a situation. And it may be the first book ever to end by teasing a sequel (which he apparently did write later).

Alas, large parts of Robinson Crusoe just don’t hold up today. At least half the book is an overly detailed account of scavenging, farming, building things, and random encounters with animals. The action picks up when the character Friday comes onto the scene—two-thirds of the way through the story—but so does the casual racism. It’s the ending, though, that is the biggest disappointment. 28 years stranded on the island, and when Robinson Crusoe finally gets back to England, it’s all minutiae about his land holdings and money and amazingly—inconceivably—a return trip to the island. There are no reunions or reconciliations, no passages reflecting on his experience, no emotion to any of it. It might have worked as storytelling 300 years ago, but Robinson Crusoe lacks what the modern reader wants and expects.
April 25,2025
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A story of ordeals at the sea of a feisty and valiant character, Robinson Crusoe, the 18-year from England! I proclaim him to be a “Man of Providence” , emerging victorious from all the mayhem, every time!!
Marooned multiple times at various instances, he is saved every time by sheer Providence.
Maybe it is rightly said, fortune favors the brave!
The felicitousness experienced during this adventurous seafaring read embarked my sullen spirit onto a renewed journey of life. Thanks to Daniel Defoe!


Crusoe is persuaded by his father to opt for law as a career, instead to pursue frenetically his passion of being a seafarer. Crusoe’s father like a regular loving father, wants him to seek a modest, secure life for himself. Committed to staying obsequious to his father, he finally succumbs to his temptations and embarks on a ship bound for London along with a friend. The tempestuous storm sets their lives in danger, dissuading the friend from any more sea travel. Crusoe too keeps dilly-dallying in between his father’s advice and his own temptation, and finally sets himself as a merchant on a ship leaving for London. He is fastidious and comes back financially successful, setting on a second voyage, which doesn’t prove as fortunate! The ship is seized by the pirates and he is enslaved and held captive. But he is able to be set free during a fishing expedition, and sail down to the African coast. He meets a kindred Portuguese captain who takes him along to Brazil, where Crusoe establishes himself as a successful plantation owner. Embarking on a slave-gathering expedition to West Africa, he ends up shipwrecked! Being the sole survivor, he seeks food and shelter, keeps a journal documenting his household activities, and logs all his attempts at making candles, and many more exciting daily events, meticulously.
In the June of 1660, he falls sick, and hallucinates of an angel visiting him(I still feel it was for real :P), warning him to repent!
Post recovery, he discovers a pleasant valley abounding in grapes, and constructs a shady retreat, proclaiming himself as its “king”.

“My island was now peopled, and I thought myself very rich in subjects; and it was a merry reflection, which I frequently made, how like a king I looked. First of all, the whole country was my own property, so I had an undoubted right of dominion. Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected - I was absolutely lord and lawgiver - they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been an occasion for it, for me.”


The novel is bulky, and is full of a labyrinthine of excitement and thrills!


Robinson Crusoe, throughout the journey, emerged as a grand epic adventurer, worth laudable for previous, present, and future generations. He is astute and dexterous, resourceful and independent. Amidst all difficulties, he never gives up, builds a shelter for himself, manages food, and never disparages anyone or boasts his own strength and luck. Additionally, he is generous and charitable, distributing gifts to his sisters. He does have a tinge of covetousness for possessions, power, and prestige. He addresses himself as a “King of the island”. Though this address seemed more jocund to me!
Robinson Crusoe comes across as an exemplary adventurer and sailor of life, not only of the sea!
April 25,2025
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I know we shouldn't judge the books of yore by today's standards but...I am being tested.

This doesn't just have the bigotry from days past, although yes oh man it has that. We're talking giving native people new names (colonizing even the idea of a first name!), acquiring slaves with the same ease and casualness as I place daily orders on food-delivery apps, racism in every other sentence. We're following a MISSIONARY here, for god's sake.

But not only that: this is the slowest plot of all time.

Imagining an era in which this would have been a guilty pleasure read makes me want to dedicate my life to discovering a time machine so we can bring 18th century people back with us and show them rom coms starring Meg Ryan.

Honestly, my conspiracy theory is that this book is only still around because the first edition said it was BY Robinson Crusoe, so everyone thought it was real. The only excuse for this book's popularity is people thinking it actually happened. Like reading the newspaper, or watching a documentary narrated by a celebrity with a soothing British accent.

But even more boring.

Bottom line: Not for me! Don't really know who it could be for.


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pre-review

i can't wait for two months from now when i can't remember anything about this book.

review to come / 2 stars

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well. it's time.

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tbr review

i have never in my life had any interest in reading this book, but i saw a perfect condition used copy of the penguin clothbound edition and bought it immediately.

two things can be true.
April 25,2025
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تعتبر رواية روبنسون كروزو هي أول رواية أدبية باللغة الإنجليزية بالمعنى المعروف لكتابة فن الرواية، وسرد الواقعية بطريقة خيالية. نشرت عام 1719 وتحكي عن الشاب كروزو والذي عُزل في جزيرة غير مأهولة لمدة 28 عامًا، وعمله على صنع عالم خاص به معتمدًا على الطبيعة، وأدوات تم جمعها من السفينة المحطمة التي كان على متنها مع آخرين ولكنهم قضوا جمعيًا وتبقى هو فقط.

"وإذا كان قد أحاط بكل شئ علمًا، فهو يعلم أنني هنا وأنني في هذه الحالة الفظيعة، وإذا كان لا شئ يحدث دون مشيئته، فهو الذي شاء أن يحدث كل هذا لي".

تدور الأحداث في أوائل القرن السابع عشر وعصر البحار وغزو المستعمرات من قبل أوروبا، وتنافسهم في ذلك فيما بينهم من أسبان وبرتغال وإنجليز، فنرى الشاب كروزو الإنجليزي يترك بيت والديه وهو ضد رغبتهم وينطلق إلى عالم البحار والمغامرات، وكما أسلفنا القول أعلاه تتقطع به السبل على جزيرة نائية في البحر الكاريبي، وهنا نرى تشكل وتكوين عالم جديد بالنسبة له وعليه أن يعمل ويكافح من أجل البقاء بمواد ومعدات بدائية، حيث شرع في بناء مسكن له بادئ الأمر والعمل على الصيد لكي يأكل وحرث الأرض وزراعتها وصنع العديد من الأشياء لكي تعينه على حياته الجديدة المنعزلة.

يعج السرد بالروحانية ومناجاة الرب والسعي وراء رضا الله لكي ينجو ويستمر في هذه الحياة البدائية، والاستمرارية بدون سخط أو استسلام وتبيان قوة الفرد واستقلاله وتفرده؛ وهو ما كان يميز ذلك العصر وبداية النهضة الأوروبية واظهار تفوق الأوروبي على غيره.

"أشكر الله على رحمته ونعمائه الرائعة التي أسبغها علي وأنا في هذا المكان المعزول، والتي لولاها لكنت في أشقى حال".

نجد أيضًا من خلال النص تمجيد الدور الأوروبي في تنوير سكان تلك البلاد وما أسماهم في النص "الهمج"، وأنهم من آكلي لحوم البشر ووجب ترويضهم وجعلهم شعوب راقية مثل أبناء جلدته. حتى عندما اتخذ منهم مرافق له "فرايدي" كان خادمًا له وليس ندًا له. بالطبع تعتبر تلك المشاهد غير مقبولة في عصرنا الحالي وتمثيلها لتفوق العنصر الأوروبي على تلك الشعوب المتخلفة البدائية.

الرواية تغص بالمغامرات والكفاح من أجل البقاء والرجوع إلى الله والتعلم من الأخطاء والصبر والعمل والجهد وانتظار النتائج والعودة للوطن مرة أخرى. السرد ممتع ولا شعور بالضجر بتاتًا خلال القراءة. نجحت الرواية تجاريًا حتى أن ديفو كتب لها أجزاء أخرى ولكن لم تحظى بالشعبية الكبيرة كهذا الكتاب، ولكن خلقت نوع أدبي جديد في عالم الخيال الأدبي والاقتباسات العديدة من روايات وأفلام. يقال أن ديفو اعتمد على تجربة البحار الاسكتلندي ألكسندر سيلكيرك والذي عُزل في جزيرة لمدة خمس سنوات، ومن قائل أنها مستوحاة من حي بن يقظان لإبن طفيل، ولكن نجد هنا واقعية واضحة ملموسة كالأكل والنوم والمعيشة وغريزة البقاء، بينما فلسفة ابن طفيل كانت التأمل حول الوجود والموت والحياة.

هذه أول ترجمة كاملة باللغة العربية وهي ترجمة بديعة ورصينة بأسلوب سلس ومتمكن من اللغة وتشكر عليه "رنيم العامري".

"وهكذا عشت حياتي براحة عظيمة، مطمئن البال ومنشرح الصدر مسلمًا أمري إلى مشيئة الله وخاضعًا كليًا لإرادته. وقد وجدت أن حياتي على هذا النحو هي أفضل مما لو عشت حياة اجتماعية محاطًا بالبشر، وكنت كلما تاقت نفسي لتبادل الحديث مع إنسان آخر سألت نفسي: أليس التفكر والحديث مع النفس أو مناجاة الله، أفضل وأبهج حتى من أمتع رفقة مع بني البشر في العالم؟"
April 25,2025
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Commento l'edizione in cui sono presenti: la storia classica e le ulteriori storie.

La drammatica storia di un naufrago che non ha nulla di drammatico.
Ho trovato, con molto rammarico, la prima parte, quella maggiormente conosciuta, deludente sotto molti aspetti, la narrazione in prima persona e la prosa non di mio gusto.

Le vicissitudini del "famoso" naufrago, invece di presentare le difficoltà insite nel corpo e nello spirito tipiche in quella situazione critica, sembrano invece la cronaca di un tizio che, approdato in un bel villaggio turistico, si gode la solitudine e il panorama. Robinson trova tutto quello di cui necessita e si adatta perfettamente alla sua "nuova" situazione senza mai trovarsi davvero in difficoltà. Una vera e propria villeggiatura su di un'sola deserta in attesa della salvezza che arriverà.

Le numerose digressioni in campo religioso sono onnipresenti e noiose, ridondanti e stancanti. La provvidenza è ovunque, tutto si risolverà per incanto.
Ok, è un racconto del '700 per lettori del '700, con idee del'700: colonialismo, schiavismo e religione sopra ogni cosa, ma a me ha lasciato ben poco altro. Lo stile di scrittura è semplice e ripetitivo, senza personalità e adatto ad un pubblico giovane.

Sulla seconda parte stendo un velo pietoso, non sono giunto a concluderlo.
April 25,2025
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Mi è piaciuto il libro e mi è piaciuto il personaggio Robinson Crusoe: un uomo pratico dalle mille risorse che si sa arrangiare, togliere d’impiccio, non si piange addosso riesce a ricrearsi un mondo senza avere niente, sfruttando il poco che possiede, le sue giornate sono piene di avvenimenti, di tentativi riusciti o meno di migliorare la sua condizione e quando abbandona l’isola lascia dietro di sé un mondo: una casa, confortevole e ben protetta, quasi una fattoria, terra coltivata, provviste...
Questo libro è un vero e proprio manuale di sopravvivenza, il libro che porterei sull’isola deserta per l’utilità pratica che potrei trarne.
I dialoghi sono ridotti al minimo, ma non se ne sente la mancanza.
Poi c’è l’interpretazione filosofica: la moralità del rapporto di Robinson con Venerdì, il tema discutibile della colonizzazione, ma per me rimane essenzialmente un libro di grande energia positiva e pratica, 35 anni di solitudine e non sentirli.
April 25,2025
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Big fat HURL. Wtf was this shit?
PLOT—There is no plot. It’s a dude getting shipwrecked on an island and surviving. I’ve seen a couple stories similar to this (Unbroken, Castaway) and it’s done much better. There are no stakes and Crusoe easily fixes every single problem. Raising goats? Done. Building a chair? No problem. Growing corn with no agricultural skill? WhO nEeDS SkILL wHEn yOu hAvE jEsUs. He’s too perfect so it feels like there is no threat.
And oh my god!!! SPOILER but after he leaves the island there is another FIFTY pages of him going back to England and fighting wolves and being rich?? Why?? Let me be free!

CHARACTER—Crusoe is boring as shit. Definitely an 18th century Chad. He has no character and only has relationships with two other people, Friday and the captain, whose only traits are loving and supporting Crusoe doggedly for literally no reason. Friday is the best character because he has ONE character trait (curiosity) but he’s made to be the inferior because he’s a pagan cannibal tribesman who isn’t European and needs the saving of Jesus. I get that Crusoe doesn’t want him to be a cannibal, but the fact every other trait needs to be “changed” is some colonizer racist bullshit.

STYLE—Boringgg. Slow pace, no interesting syntax, and those sentences were longer than a sermon. WHERE ARE THE PERIODS??? He’s going through grammatical menopause.

Apart from exactly three interesting quotes this is only good for fire fuel. I actually was going to rate it higher for his religious transformation because it is interesting even if I can’t relate to it, but once he is back in England, it doesn’t really shape the way he lives. His time on the island doesn’t even shape him bc when he gets back, he’s rich and he loves it!! The island taught him that money doesn’t mean much but then he froths over his wealth??!? Where is the development?? So fucking stupid.
If Jesus can’t give you a character, then nothing will. Defoe more like deHOE get out
April 25,2025
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It's a literary classic, but it's a far cry from the children's version we knew when we were younger. Nevertheless, it is a work to understand and appreciate for what it is: a precursor story of the genre that has influenced more than one novel and has not finished serving as a reference.
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