300 years of Robinson Crusoe

On April 25, 1719 Daniel Defoe's novel The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published in London. Just one year later the text had become a European bestseller and was available in German, French and Dutch translations. The exhibition "300 Years of Robinson Crusoe" in the University Library Freiburg provides an insight into the reception of this classic of modernism through selected editions. Books and illustrations from the Freiburg University Library and the curator's collection will be presented, as will Sandro Jung, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in China and EURIAS Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies.

• What: Exhibit opening
  
  
• When: July 16, 2019, 5:30pm
  
  
• Where:
• University Library Freiburg
  Event hall on the 2^nd floor
  Platz der Universität 2
  79089 Freiburg
  
  
• The event is open to the general public.
  
  
• Host: University Library Freiburg in cooperation with the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)

• Contact information: Sophie Baar, + 49 (0) 761/203-97194
  
  
• The event is free of admission.
  
  
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