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Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

Postby Captanne » December 19th, 2005, 4:08 pm

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re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

Postby john » December 19th, 2005, 4:36 pm

Greetings Captanne (my Captanne):

You may be hard pressed to find something like this, since Lewis actually did not intend for them to be strict allegories. You can read for some discussion on this, but please feel free to search around the forums for additional discussion, as this is has been brought up many times over the years.
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re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

Postby Captanne » December 20th, 2005, 3:02 pm

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Postby Stanley Anderson » December 20th, 2005, 3:34 pm

…on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a fair green country under a swift sunrise.
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re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

Postby A#minor » December 20th, 2005, 4:18 pm

Good point, Stanley. Most people are not aware that "allegory" would be more appropriate in describing writing like Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progess, where everything in his fiction represents something else in reality.

Lewis included Christian parallels in his books, but not every single thing in the books is directly related to something else; therefore, it's not a true allegory.
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