So, the biblical correlations between Grainville’s “The Last Man,” and the Holy Bible are quite obvious, particularly with the books of Revelations and Genesis. The novel does at times, though, exhibit sentiments of yet another book of the bible. Comparisons to Solomon’s Ecclesiastes can be seen, for sure. In fact, I would even argue […]
As I read The Last Man I was constantly reflecting on how confusing the will of God was portrayed. Until I knew the conclusion of the story, I wondered if the characters were supposed to be viewed sympathetically in contrast to the conflicting messages they received about what God wanted. After the spirit of the […]
When reading The Last Man by Granville I decided that it was the greatest most ridiculous book I’d ever read. Most of the reasoning behind this is because nationalism just oozes out of the pages in a way that had me laughing. At first it was not that bad because with the author being French […]
In Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin de Granville’s book, The Last Man, the end of the world is foretold, starting with the last two fertile people in the world. The only fertile man, Omegarus, is told by the Spirit of the Earth that he can start humanity over again. However, the marriage between Omegarus and the […]
In reading the book The Last Man one can get a feel for the events and beliefs of the time of the writing. I find it interesting how the social views and world events at the time of writing can influence the overall feeling of a book. One major theme that comes through in this […]
What is the Great Moderator? It might be a scolding parent, or a set of shameful consequences. For a student who likes video games a little too much it’s in a desire to maintain a respectable GPA. For a recovering alcoholic it might be a booze-less fridge. So, who moderates human progress? We have no aliens to […]
What Cousin de Grainville explores in The Last Man is an imagining of the time just before the final time before the end of the world, where all empires had crumbled and people huddled together to try and eke out a meager existence. Grainville certainly knew his audience. This is, unmistakably, the definition of a dystopian […]
In Jean-Baptiste Francois Xavier Cousin De Grainville’s The Last Man Palemos tells a story to Omegarus about Idamas, where Idamas enters a temple and pleads with God to save the earth, Idamas then hears a voice in the temple telling him; “The destiny of earth is bound up with the life of one man, […]