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) novels, with it trailing only "Lolita" (1955). However, Nabokov's biographer Brian Boyd seemed to have ambivalent feelings toward "Despair", noting that although "Nabokov's sheer intelligence crackles in every line... the book's style... seems sadly lacking in its structure... It never quite convinces, and page after page that would make one tingle with excitement in another context can here only intermittently overcome one's remoteness from a story whose central premise fails to merit the suspension of disbelief". "Despair" is the second Nabokov novel to feature unreliable narration from a first-person point of view, the first being "The Eye" with the character