Narrative Style of Robinson Crusoe
Defoe is a prolific as well as gifted writer. He exploited a narrative art or craft peculiarly of his own by which he has written history that sounds like fiction and fiction with the verisimilitude of history, or in other words he has so blended fact and fancy that it is almost impossible to extricate the one from the other. Robinson Crusoe is a fictional autobiography written from a first-person point of view, apparently written by an old man looking back on his life. The story also includes material from an incomplete diary, which is integrated into the novel. In the novel Defoe does hold the reader's interest by definite arts of story-telling, such as the use of forecast, premonition, dreams, and popular superstitions, by arranging his details for climax, contrast and suspense, by the use of striking concrete details and by exciting certain emotional responses. Defoe also uses his narrative devices to give an air of verisimilitude to an anecdote, adventure or biography; and apart from the question of fact and fiction; he has succeeded in writing narratives of absorbing interest.
Robinson Crusoe is a wonderful creation by its author Daniel Defoe. The themes of the novel are of universal interest and that they are set out with an atmosphere of sincerity and truth. The novel has Occupied a permanent place in the annals of English literature. The story of Robinson Crusoe, describing a lonely man's struggle for existence -- will always have too strong an appeal to human sympathies to suffer oblivion.
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