Parroting Solitude: The Alienated Voice in Julio Cortázar’s “Adíos Robinson”

• Published in: Digital Defoe Vol. 14; pp. 1 - 16
• Main Author: DeGabriele, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Illinois State University 01.01.2023
• Subjects: adíos robinson; daniel defoe; julio cortázar; parrots in literature; robinson crusoe; solitude

This article argues that Argentine author Julio Cortázar’s Adios, Robinson, a radio play written in the late 1970s, takes up the theme of solitude from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe by focusing on mechanical repetitions of the human voice. On Defoe’s island, the human voice was ‘recorded’ and repea...