The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700
The book The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 was written by author Atkinson, Geoffroy, 1892-1960 Here you can read free online of The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 a good or bad book?
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The CrUicon opens with the arrival at the island of Saint Helena of Critilo the lone survivor of a shipwreck. Having come ashore, this man tries to speak with a youth, Andrenio, who like Hayy ben Yaqdhan has grown to manhood without knowledge of human speeches. Having learned to talk, Andrenio shows that he has formed his own concepts of the world, that he has conceived unaided the idea of a Deity and, in addition, a love for this Deity as manifested in nature. Here, as in the earlier Arabic no...vel, is a vindication of the inherent virtue and wisdom of uncorrupted man. It is in the stressing of moral rather than philosophical considerations that Gracidn differs most markedly from his predecessor.^ The work of this moralist has long been recognized as having an influence on the character of Man Friday in the Robinson Crusoe. Apparently no influence was exerted on 17th century French writers by translations of Gracidn and Tbn Thofail. In 1708, however, there appears a French novel, of the desert island type, strangely like the Robinson story of years later.* It happens that Defoe ' Uhomme universel^ transl.
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