Daniel Defoe he must have been a writer and only a writer. Because the truth is that his other political and business facets led him to misbehave. Both him and his extended family. But maybe it's all part of the same. It may be that it was precisely because of his writing vein that he approached his social activities with the same bohemian and fantastic propensity. (free historical interpretation of the one who writes here).
The point is that the great writer that he was, was buried at the time by the impairment of his public figure on many other levels ..., but as I would say Michael Ende, «That is another story and must be told on another occasion» ...
In the merely literary, Defoe left a momentous legacy for other writers who came later and, of course, for millions of readers who today have reviewed some of its most illustrious pages.
Top 3 recommended books by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Even today the echoes of this great novel resonate in any field of literary or cinematographic creation.
The great idea of ​​the castaway as a character in any creative proposal throws the reader, viewer or viewer into existentialist assumptions under premises that evoke adventure, freedom ... and risk.
Because what happens to Robinson Crusoe is that he loves adventure with its inherent risk, and as the quote says: «THU amat periculum, in illo peribet »(He who loves danger will perish in it). Only Robinson does not perish, because he is accompanied by his emblematic luck with which he will be able to overcome loneliness and a thousand new adventures that make this novel one of the greatest of the genre.
Robinson and his desert island, Robinson Crusoe the king of solitude, the owner of the most beautiful sunsets, the last man on a lonely face of the Earth. Simply essential.
Diary of the year of the plague
Between 1664 and 1666 the plague punished the city of London with extreme harshness, turning the city into an alienated lawless city where humanity acquired its natural ambivalence from mercy to ruin.
At the time, and still today, this chronicle-tinged novel moved thousands of readers who discovered all the edges of the cruel epidemic.
This aggressive current of death destroyed everything with the subtlety of an unstoppable virus, with the violence of an invisible enemy that no one can stand up to. Desperation generated scenes that were terrifying at times and exciting at times. A chilling account of what London went through in that dark year.
Moll Flanders
In Defoe's England there were still many years left before he was born Connan doyle and the detective genre will be officially awakened. But, as on so many other occasions, every definitive event always finds its proofs, its kind of skirmishes.
Defoe detected that taste for the fictional criminal story, as a kind of cure for the ever more wicked reality in the mind of the real criminal than of the writer.
And of course, since the genre itself was not yet established, Defoe used a kind of popular proposal between the rogue and the criminal, a surprising idea that was not entirely well received in the most critical sectors.
