The Brazilian adventure of Robinson Crusoe : the bourgeois and slaver hero at the origin of the rise of the novel

Robinson Crusoé, de Daniel Defoe, analisado enquanto herói burguês e individualista, nos termos de Ian Watt e Franco Moretti, mas também na condição de traficante de escravos e de proprietário da produção açucareira no Brasil, mais especificamente na Bahia do séc. XVII, isto é, examina-se aqui o impacto da experiência peridérica e colonial brasileira no enredo, na caracterização de personagens e na prosa do célebra romance.Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, analuzed as bourgeois and individualistc hero, accordin to the definition of Ian Watt and Franco Moretti, but also on the condition of slave trader and owner of sugar production in Brazil, specifically in state of Bahia in the 17th century. This article examines the impact of peripheral and colonial Brazilian experience in the plot, in the characterization of characters and in the prose of the famous novel