This 1933 novel — Lewis' first-published work of prose fiction — charts the progress of a fictional character through the philosophical landscape before eventually arriving where he started at traditional Christianity. It is Lewis's personal revision of John Bunyan's 17th century novel, Pilgrim's Progress, recast with the politics, philosophy and aesthetic principles of the early-20th century. As such the character struggles with the modern phoniness, hypocrisy and intellectual vacancy of the Christian church, communism, fascism, and various philosophical and artistic movements. It balances Lewis's neoplatonic mindset with a Wikipedia:Kierkegaardian faith-based understanding.