Patrick Chamoiseau 
Crusoe’s Footprint [EPUB ebook] 

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The discovery in Robinson Crusoe of the footprint of a fellow human on an abandoned island is a haunting and iconic moment in world literature. In the hands of Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the most innovative and lauded authors in the French language, this moment of shattered solitude becomes an occasion for Crusoe to reconsider his origins, existence, and humanity and for one of our most acclaimed novelists to craft a powerful meditation on race and history.

Chamoiseau’s novel contrasts two intertwining narratives—the log entries of a slave ship’s captain and the story of a castaway who awakens on a beach and must rebuild his entire world alone. Chamoiseau creates a new perspective on the Crusoe myth, not only injecting the slave trade and Creole history into this previously ahistorical tale but conceiving an intensely original, freeform prose influenced by Creole cadence. This powerful work by a literary master is available in English for the first time in this eloquent and vivid translation.

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Table of Content


Translator’s Note

1. The Idiot

2. The Small Person

3. The Artist

Afterword by Valerie Loichot

About the author


Patrick Chamoiseau is author of Texaco, winner of the Prix Goncourt and chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and, most recently, Slave Old Man. Jeffrey Landon Allen is an independent scholar and translator. Charly Verstraet is Assistant Professor of World Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 210 ● ISBN 9780813949079 ● File size 1.2 MB ● Translator Charly Verstraet & Jeffrey Landon Allen ● Publisher University of Virginia Press ● City Charlottesville ● Country US ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8457915 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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