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Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

PostPosted: December 19th, 2005, 4:08 pm
by Captanne

re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

PostPosted: December 19th, 2005, 4:36 pm
by john
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.

re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

PostPosted: December 20th, 2005, 3:02 pm
by Captanne

Re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

PostPosted: December 20th, 2005, 3:34 pm
by Stanley Anderson

re: Looking for Lewis' own words on Narnia

PostPosted: December 20th, 2005, 4:18 pm
by A#minor
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.