The Island with the treasure

the Island with the treasure ( Treasure Island ) is a novel of adventures written by Robert Louis Stevenson which initially appeared in the magazine Young Folks of October 1st 1881 with the January 28th 1882 in the form of signed episodes “Captain George North”. The publication in volume intervened in 1883.

Summary

The account is that of Jim Hawkins, wire of a tenant of the inn “the Admiral Benbow” in an English port at the 18th century. One beautiful day, an old old seaman named Billy Bones unloads with the inn and settles there. Jim is fascinated by the sailor coleric, violent and addicted to drink; the more so as it seems to weigh on this last an obscure threat. This one is specified when Pew, a mysterious blind man, gives to Billy Bones “the black spot”, heralding died in the world the Pirate S. Whereas the hours of Billy Bones are counted, it dies, struck down by a crisis of Apoplexie. By opening the trunk of the pirate, Jim and his mother discover a chart indicating the hiding-place of a fabulous treasure that the band of the famous Flint captain hid in a deserted island. With the assistance of Doctor Livesey and the knight Trelawney, the lord of the manor of the village, a ship baptized the Hispaniola is chartered to leave to its research. During the crossing, Jim surprises a conversation between the cook, a picturesque character with wooden leg called Length John Silver, and men of crew: he learns thus that the majority of the sailors on board the Hispaniola belong to the band of Flint and than a mutiny prepares to seize the treasure. Jim informs his friends of the danger who decide not to act before being with ground while remaining on their guards. When the island is reached, the fight begins between the two groups. Various more undecided episodes the ones than the others proceed, and to finish the treasure fall between the hands from the gentlemen from birth. Silver disappears and the Hispaniola takes again the sea with its invaluable cargo!

Genesis of sound “first book”

Stevenson at 29 years

In 1879, Stevenson is regarded as a rising star within the literary circle. Its works are limited at the time to two accounts of voyage - An Inland Voyage (1878) and Voyage with an ass in the Cevennes (1879) - like to a handle of news and were not worth to him yet to attract the favor of the General public. Successes of regard thus, for this impassioned writing and of literature, but which do not enable him yet to live of its passion. Resulting from a rather easy medium, it owes its relative financial comfort only to the situation of his father, Thomas Stevenson, celebrates engineer builder of Phare S in all the Scotland. But this financial dependence on his/her father is very often drawn up like an obstacle with its freedom, Thomas not hesitating to resort to this lever to make fold his/her son with his requirements.

On the sentimental level, Stevenson saw a relation an American Artist-painter, Fanny Osbourne, met in 1876 at the time of a stay in France with Grez. At the very least complicated relation at the time, since beautiful, ten years old more than, is married to him, mother of two children, Isobel and Lloyd, and live separate of her husband remained with the the United States.

When Fanny in August 1878 sets out again with his/her children in California near her husband, Stevenson remains alone and the world seems to collapse around him. One year passes, during which he endeavors to overcome his sorrow and to live far from the loved being, but nothing made there: August 7th, 1879, holding to with it more, it embarks almost on a blow of head on board a boat of emigrants for the America in order to join Fanny.

Stevenson in California

At the end of more than three weeks of voyage, Stevenson finds Fanny with Monterey, in a deplorable health condition: cough, fever and Eczema. But side finances, it can count only on him, even its friends - W.E. Henley, Sidney Colvin and Edmund Gosse - make the deaf person ear with her calls to the help. Persuaded that Stevenson was misled in this relation with Fanny, that it its talent, they wasted applied, to the suggestion of Henley, to discourage from Stevenson to remain in California. With this intention, it was decided that a minimum of effort would be made to place its texts near the editors and that one would answer by the negative one his demand for money under an unspecified pretext. It is thus after a fashion that Stevenson survives, saving as much as possible and hardly gaining what to live by writing articles for the Monterey Californian , a local gazette.

It falls seriously sick in March 1880 and escapes from little from dead thanks to devotion from Fanny to its bedside, which also took on it to write to the parents of Stevenson to try to bring back them to the reason. Indicator which them obstinacy failed to cost the life of their son, they yield: Thomas ensures it of a revenue and gives his blessing to the marriage. Stevenson and Fanny marry in May 1880, then, after two months of honeymoon passed in a money mine given up, are turned over from there in Europe to the month of August.

A literary vision

On its return in Scotland, Stevenson is from now on a new man: the things were clarified in its life. Finally married with Fanny, it was reconciled with his father, which, without to provide him its financial independence, the met with the shelter of the need. But especially, here it is the holder of a succeeded literary vision, lengthily matured during its exile, which it off details in a first test One the Art Literature . And it is there only the first brick of a true theory on the fiction and the novel, which it will not cease thereafter developing and refining, in particular in its major tests which followed has GOSIP one Lovesong (1882), has note one realism (1883), has Humble Remonstrance , (1884) and One summons technical elements off style in literature (1885).

According to Michel Breaking, this last year in California appears capital in the life of Stevenson because it is starting from this experiment that it is accepted as a writer. Besides in its news the House testifies on the moor ( The Pavilion one the Links , 1880), mainly developed and completed in California, from which the resolutely new tone, quite different from its preceding texts, immediately allured criticism.

Adaptations

Cinema

The topics approached by the novel (drives out with the treasure, pirates, heroism) as its very public character could not leave the 7 {{E}} indifferent art. It is thus not surprising that work underwent many film adaptations which one will only retain most outstanding:

Series

  • 1978 the Island with the treasure ('' Takarajima '') is the Japanese animated series adapted novel diffused in France in 1987.

Video games

Cartoons

  • Long John Silver is a series of Cartoon carried out by Xavier Dorison and Mathieu Lauffray telling the biography Length John Silver before and after the Island with the treasures , whose first volume is appeared in April 2007;

  • Hugo Pratt also transposed in comic strips the adventure of Stevenson.

Extracts

- A spirit? Eh well, it is possible, says it. But then, there is a thing which I do not include/understand well. There was an echo. However, nobody forever considering a spirit with a shade, eh well, then, what does it make to have an echo? I would like the knowledge. It is not natural, surely!

- The current weakened already, Sir, declared the Gray sailor, sitted with the front one. You can weaken a little.

- Oh Sir, did I exclaim, when leave us? - When? We leave tomorrow.

Influences

the Island with the treasure of Stevenson influenced the imaginary collective, in particular with regard to the image of the pirate whose Long John Silver became the Archétype. One finds for example many his features characteristic in the character of the Red Captain interpreted by Walter Matthau in the film Pirates of Roman Polanski (1986).

One also finds the concept of the black mark in Pirates of the Caribbean: The secrecy of the cursed trunk of Gore Verbinski (2006).

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