A robinsonade is a literary work centered on the motif of an individual or group marooned on an island against their will, and thus isolated from the world. The name of the genre derives from the name of the protagonist in Daniel Defoe’s novel about the marooning of a shipwreck victim far from civilization, entitled in full The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1719; translated into German as Das Leben und die gantz ungemeine Begebenheiten…