ABSTRACT
This chapter tries to illustrate a viable definition of the term ‘event’ that is beyond the limitations of happening in order to not only make sense of Oyabe’s and Crusoe’s work but also to better perceive their place in world literature which in itself constitutes an event. For this end I aim to utilize the term ‘inversion’ that Kojin Karatani developed in Origins of Japanese Literature and I will argue that an event is an inversion, or rather a “synchronic drama”—as Frederic Jameson describes it. The ‘event,’ in the framework of this chapter, is a temporal operation that by transgressing the regulatory principle of difference between the diachronic and synchronic forms of time produces a universality or rather an abstraction of time that is independent of temporality.
