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) Dostoevsky's writing, with its excessive soul-searching and glorification of criminals and prostitutes and this is reflected in "Despair" and Hermann, who carries certain similarities to Raskolnikov, who had also planned a perfect murder in "Crime and Punishment". Additionally, the book is rich in intertextual connections to other authors such as Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev, Oscar Wilde, and Conan Doyle. "Despair" is generally acclaimed as one of Nabokov's better Russian novels, along with "Invitation to a Beheading" and "The Gift" (1938), and has a reasonable volume of literary criticism. British author Martin Amis ranked it second on his list of best Nabokov