Castaway

by James Gould Cozzens
Category: "Fiction - S. F./Fantasy"
Pages:115
Year of Publication:1934
Date Added:02/21/2021
Date Read:12/07/2023
Notes:Armed Services Edition

An allegorical novella about a Mr. Levy, modern man, who finds himself alone in a huge department store after some disaster that wipes out the rest of humanity. He goes from fear, to pleasure that everything in the store is his, to drunkenness and, finally, to the realization that none of the material things matter. Along the way he kills another man, an "idiot" whom, at the end of the book Mr. Levy realizes is really himself.
My Rating: 4

Reviews for Castaway

Review - Castaway

Heavy-handed allegory that suggests (I think, so far as I was able to make sense of nonsense) that modern man is dead in his materialism. Since there is not God in the author's world, there is no solution, only accusation. And to make it worse, the book was simply dull.

Reviewed by Roger on 2023-12-07 17:27:23

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