Esirobinsonadeja

Mainitsin edellisessä viestissä - vuodelta 1995, kun tein graduani - Robinson Crusoeta edeltävät kertomukset autiolle saarelle ajautuvista seikkailjoista. Muistin myöhemmin, että olin koonnut Yrjö Hirnin Valtameren saari -kirjan (1924, uusintapainos joskus 90-luvulla) perusteella listan Crusoen edeltäjistä. Tämä on englanninkielinen, koska tein sen eräälle sähköpostilistalle, jolla olen. Osa näistä tai niiden englanninkielisiä käännöksiä löytynee netistä - ainakin Krinke Kesmeksen teksti on saatavana.

Esi-robinsonadeja

Sofokles: Philoktetes, contains a tale of Philoktetes, who's taken on an island shore while he's sick; published in 1863 in Les vrais Robinsons. Naufrages. Solitudes. Voyages

also contained in the twelfth book of Télémaque by Fénelon; first one to show remorse over having to leave the island

Ibn Tophail (aka Abu Bacer, 1100-1185): Hai Ibn Yokdahn, from 12th century, became known in Europe in the early 18th century, received commentaries from Leibniz and Alexander Pope (in an article in The Guardian in 1713), tells about a baby who finds himself on an island where people are said to be born without parents from mud, however the island is deserted, Ibn Yokdahn lives with animals, makes clothes for himself from animal skins etc., also moral ponderings

Francis Godwin: The Man in the Moon, or Discourse of a Voyage Thither (1638); the hero gets shipwrecked on St. Helena before his voyage to the Moon; was a model for Der fliegende Wandersmann nach den Mond by Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1659)

Baltasar Gracían: El Criticón (1651-1657); contains a lengthy episode of Critilo, who's shipwrecked and marooned, befriends a native called Andrenion (or that's what he calls him); Yrjö Hirn suspects that Gracían knew the story of Ibn Yokdahn

Grimmelshausen: Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus (1669); Simplicissimus is marooned in the sixth part of the novel, in search for peaceful resignation in some remote part of the world; is not alone, the carpenter of the ship is with him, they also find a girl stranded on a beach, the carpenter dies later on

Wolfgang Helmhart von Hohberg: Der Hapsburgische Ottobert (1664), contains an episode of robinsonade

Marivaux: Les effets surprenants de la sympathie (1713): the hero Frédelinque is left alone on an island

Hendrik Smeeds (1708): Beschryvinge van het magtig Koningryk Krinke Kesmes