Book: Axel's Castle - p 2

You read reviews of books of fiction on websites, and much it comes
down to "The author took me away to another time and place." Is this
all that's required? The consumer criterion ne plus ultra? It seems
that the frame of interest is simply in titillating the consumer in
this way of escape. Is this the legacy of Symbolism/Modernism?
Because for the last century we seem merely to have elaborated on it.