If all Russian writers came out of Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” then the novel by the South African writer and Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee “Mr. Fo” and the novel by the Frenchman Michel Tournier “Friday, or Pacific Limbo” also have the same ancestor. This is Daniel Defoe with his famous book “Robinson Crusoe”. The authors of the novels included in this book turn to the plot that immortalized another writer - Daniel Defoe. The first of these novels was written in France in 1967, the second in South Africa twenty-one years later. The creator of "Friday" was awarded the Goncourt Prize, the author of "Mr. Fo" received the Nobel Prize. This is where the similarities of the above-mentioned works end, and the fascinating search for differences begins. The adult reader of this book will have the opportunity to make another trip to the island of Robinson Crusoe, familiar from childhood, and discover that the virgin world of Robinson has changed a lot.