Nor is he the first outsider to be press-ganged into the battle against the encroaching dunes: but the villagers allow inadequate specimens to die, rather than risk detection by the distant authorities. The book, "Woman in the Dunes" is a self-contained fictional world in which a man, is unsuspectingly lead into captivity and slavery by a village of sand dune dwellers in order to help upkeep the living and livelihood of a middle aged woman. Although straying from blatantly obvious philosophical tactics, it could be interpreted as a study in individuality and the sociology of forced coexistent. The one puzzling thing, at least to me, is that while reading the book, I took it as a criticism of intensely enforced socialized structures. I was then quite taken aback when later I read that the author was in fact a communist, as it almost seems more a criticism of communal society than an advocate for it. Here is, essentially, a Marxist commune, in which all citizens work for the greater good of the community, that is: clearing the sand away so it can not pile up and bury the
Nor is he the first outsider to be press-ganged into the battle against the encroaching dunes: but the villagers allow inadequate specimens to die, rather than risk detection by the distant authorities. The book, "Woman in the Dunes" is a self-contained fictional world in which a man, is unsuspectingly lead into captivity and slavery by a village of sand dune dwellers in order to help upkeep the living and livelihood of a middle aged woman. Although straying from blatantly obvious philosophical tactics, it could be interpreted as a study in individuality and the sociology of forced coexistent. The one puzzling thing, at least to me, is that while reading the book, I took it as a criticism of intensely enforced socialized structures. I was then quite taken aback when later I read that the author was in fact a communist, as it almost seems more a criticism of communal society than an advocate for it. Here is, essentially, a Marxist commune, in which all citizens work for the greater good of the community, that is: clearing the sand away so it can not pile up and bury the