Parroting Solitude: The Alienated Voice in Julio Cortázar’s “Adíos Robinson”
This article argues that Argentine author Julio Cortázar’s Adios, Robinson, a radio play written in the late 1970s, takes up the theme of solitude from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe by focusing on mechanical repetitions of the human voice. On Defoe’s island, the human voice was ‘recorded’ and repea...
Main Author: | DeGabriele, Peter |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Illinois State University
2023-01-01
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Series: | Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries |
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Online Access: | https://digitaldefoe.org/2022/12/29/parroting-solitude-the-alienated-voice-in-julio-cortazars-adios-robinson/ |
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