by Cymru » March 31st, 2006, 7:55 pm
I can't believe I voted this way - or rather, I should say that I wouldn't have believed I would vote this way after reading Til We Have Faces for the first time last year. But this is precisely why I chose it.
It has revealed itself to me over and over again since I first touched it that it never ceases to amaze me. What Lewis did here is unbelievable. The layers never seem to stop peeling away. It is a masterpiece.
It is very hard though, I must say, to compare his fiction works with his non-fiction works. They are entirely different. I suppose though, that I feel this fictional piece so finely wove his own beliefs into it, that it is the supreme choice. That is far more complicated than "laying it on the line" in a non-fiction work.
I think TWHF is the culmination of all that C.S. Lewis was to the literary and theological community.