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This book, which is one of the undisputed classics of children's literature, is also one of the least known works of all time. In fact, few people have read the original text and yet everyone is familiar with at least one of the multiple, condensed, and adapted versions of this classic. Of all the mutilated editions, this edition by Media Vaca is surely the one that has gone the farthest, since it has no words at all. It is also the first work IN FULL COLOUR by the publisher, whose books, in addition to their craftsmanship, have always been characterized by the use of bichromy. The transmutation of a narrative text into images is always a challenge. And more so, if the previous text happens to be one of the most well-known stories of universal literature. The only valid processes to achieve a fortunate journey of languages are synthesis, suggestion, and connotation: and Ajubel has used these concepts to give us his delicate version of Robinson Crusoe, where besides its graphic beauty, he offers us the possibility to read the essences of the text: the price of dreams, the abandonment of loneliness, the anxiety of return, themes as old as literature itself. By means of seventy-seven drawings, the illustrator has created a story which closes in upon itself, like a snake biting its tail, but aware in fact that its tail is not the same that it once knew: the twist is an exercise of experience which reminds us of another poet: «we, those we were then, are no longer the same». We will never be. Leonardo PADURA FUENTES (from his commentary in the book) 
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