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- Title
Revisiting, Transforming and Transferring Robinson Crusoe and John Silver into Another Literature.
- Authors
Pujol-Valls, Maria
- Abstract
The Catalan children's author Josep Vallverdú published two crossover stories based on <italic>Robinson Crusoe</italic> and <italic>Treasure Island</italic>. <italic>Les raons de Divendres</italic> (Friday's Reasons) (2003) gives an account of the episode of Crusoe and Friday told from the point of view of the servant, whereas <italic>El testament de John Silver</italic> (John Silver's Will) (2007) deals with the adventures of the pirate after searching for the treasure in the Caribbean. This paper demonstrates how Vallverdú uses his experience as a writer and translator to transform two canonical novels, through transposition into a contemporary context, in a way that facilitates an interaction between Catalan literature and English literature. In keeping with this exploration of literary tradition, the two sequels are also analysed as twenty-first century expressions of a Western literary tradition that abounds in adventure stories set at sea.
- Subjects
ROBINSON Crusoe Island (Juan Fernandez Islands); TREASURE Island (San Francisco, Calif.); LES raons de Divendres (Book); EL testament de John Silver (Book); VALLVERDU, Josep
- Publication
Comparative Critical Studies, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 2/3, p307
- ISSN
1744-1854
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3366/ccs.2017.0241