by Tuke » March 25th, 2008, 9:42 pm
Nowhere in his literary criticism (most of which I have). If he mentions Dostoevsky elsewhere, it would be as a passing allusion not the main subject of an essay.
I only found one reference, in the personal Letters Of CS Lewis to his brother Warnie on 12/25/31:
"I have bought The Brothers Karamazov but not yet read it with the exception of some special detachable pieces (of which there are many). Thus read it is certainly a great religious and poetical work: whether, as a whole, it will turn out a good, or even a tolerable novel I don't know."
I can't recall if Lewis and Arthur Greeves discuss Dostoevsky in their collected letters They Stand Together. Novels are the special purview of their correspondence, so it may be worth checking your local library or even online.
Lewis had more to say about Tolstoy, "another great favourite of mine." Again from the Letters: "War & Peace is in my opinion the best novel - the only one which makes a novel really comparable to epic. I have read it about three times."
"The 'great golden chain of Concord' has united the whole of Edmund Spenser's world.... Nothing is repressed; nothing is insubordinate. To read him is to grow in mental health." The Allegory Of Love (Faerie Queene)
2 Corinthians IV.17 The Weight of Glory