Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Beginning: “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull…” 

- What is the genre or mode of representation best suited to life in the 21C?

Andy Weir, The Martian (2011)

“Having mastered this difficulty, and employed a world of time about it, I bestirred myself to see, if possible, how to supply two wants.  I had no vessels to hold anything that was liquid, except two runlets, which were almost full of rum, and some glass bottles”

Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, Solidarity

p. 94

J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (pp. 79)�

J.M. Coetzee, Elizabeth Costello (pp. 80)�