La isla como laboratorio semiótico de la identidad. Robinson revisitado

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In this article, I will take up the insistence and convergence of interest of some scholars significant to me around some fundamental texts in Island literature. They testify, as classics of the Western canon and a renewable source of ever new interpretations, to what one might precisely call the efficacy of literature - or of the aesthetic text in general - in articulating the fundamental themes of the human condition. This efficacy might ultimately consist in the ability to deal figuratively, i.e. not on the basis of purely rational and/or cognitive arguments, but through narratives and indeed fantastic figurations, with complex and fundamental issues. Specifically, we will see the outcomes of Tournier’s inversion of the Robinson myth in Greimas’ and Latour’s comments.