Revisiting, Transforming and Transferring Robinson Crusoe and John Silver into Another Literature
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[1] Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Barcelona, España
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- Localización: Comparative Critical Studies, ISSN 1744-1854, Vol. 14, Nº. 2-3, 2017, págs. 307-322
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The Catalan children's author Josep Vallverdú published two crossover stories based on Robinson Crusoe and Treasure Island. Les raons de Divendres (Friday's Reasons) (2003) gives an account of the episode of Crusoe and Friday told from the point of view of the servant, whereas El testament de John Silver (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.
