Robinson Crusoe Island in his 1719 novel about the character (although the novel is explicitly set in the Caribbean, not in the Juan Fernández Islands). This was just one of several survival stories from the period that Defoe would have been aware of. To reflect the literary lore associated with the island and attract tourists, the Chilean government renamed the place Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966. Robinson Crusoe Island has a mountainous and undulating terrain, formed by ancient lava flows which have built up from numerous volcanic episodes. The highest point on the island is above sea level at El Yunque. Intense erosion
Despair (novel) violence between the Nazis and Communists. It would not be long before the Nazi party would come into prominence and Hitler appointed as chancellor. This would only fuel Nabokov's hatred for totalitarian governments, and this disdain was incorporated somewhat into "Despair" (Hermann is pro-Communist) and more prominently later on in "Invitation to a Beheading" (1936), Nabokov's next novel. In 1935, Nabokov began to become increasingly intrigued with the English language and elected to translate his two most recently written novels at the time, "Laughter in the Dark" (1932) (first translated as "Camera Obscura") and "Despair". Nabokov remarked that translating "Despair"