Friday, or, The Other Island "Araucanian" whom he names as Friday. Because of the deep change that happens in Crusoe during the stay, he finally does not want to return from the island, while Friday does. Friday, or, The Other Island Friday, or, The Other Island () is a 1967 novel by French writer Michel Tournier. It retells Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The first edition of the book was published 15 March 1967. It won that year's Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française. In 1971, Tournier rewrote the book, adapting it for younger readers, under the title "Vendredi ou la Vie sauvage". The young
Despair (novel) similar fashion, Julian Connolly calls "Despair" “a cautionary tale of creative solipsism”. In 1978 the novel was adapted into the film "Despair", directed by the German film-maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde. Nabokov's novel was adapted by Tom Stoppard. Boyd, Brian. "Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years". Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Print. Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich. "Despair". New York, NY: Vintage International, 1989. Print. Despair (novel) Despair (, or "") is the seventh novel by Vladimir Nabokov, originally published in Russian, serially in the politicized literary journal "Sovremennye zapiski" during 1934. It was then published as a book