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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. It deals with the possible, but not necessary, moral reversion to a primitive, instinctual existence in the face of a sea catastrophe and consequent shipwreck and solitude. This theme had been explored previously by Daniel Defoe ( Robinson Crusoe) and Voltaire ( Candide), and more recently by William Golding ( Lord of the Flies), Umberto Eco ( The Island of the Day Before ), Joseph Michael Coetzee ( Foe), Jose Saramago ( The Stone Raft and The Tale of the Unknown Island ).

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