Posted by Robert Hill on 04/04/00 from 129.11.153.35 via proxy proxy2.leeds.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Re: c.s. lewis posted by Adam Quinan on April 04, 2000 at 12:07:56:
I believe the character Ransom in C.S. Lewis does not have a final e.
Doubtless this is for reasons of allegory.
I was somewhat turned off Lewis by my first (and, to date, almost my
only) direct experience of his work. At the age of about 12-13 I read
a book called Voyage to Venus. (This is a title that was used for some
editions of Perelandra.) I expected a straightforward science fiction
story, and was not prepared for gloomy theology, with the torturing of
animals and discussions of the inevitability and eternity of hell.
I expect this probably came from a character whom the author was trying
to show should not be believed, but it's the part of the book I
remember best.
I'll read some more Lewis some day, but not just yet.
To be fair, there is one thing by Lewis that I like. This is something
he wrote about Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which goes roughly:
"No other imaginary world has been projected which is at once diverse
and yet so seemingly objective, so seemingly disinfected of an author's
merely individual psychology."