C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces, part 3

Описание: In this third and final lecture on C.S. Lewis's terrific novel Till We Have Faces, we look at part 2 of the novel, the four final chapters in which Queen Orual, having lodged her complaint against the gods, finds herself answered by the memories of her life which tell a different account than the one she had made a matter of public record.

Here we have Lewis at the height of his powers as a writer. Employing The Great Divorce as an analogy, if the first part of the novel was akin to the narrative perspective of a denizen of the grey city, full of selfish justification and distaste for the truly good, the second part is written from the entirely opposite perspective, recanting her previous complaint against the gods, and repenting of the life that she had previously lived. Queen Orual sees the purpose and the meaning of suffering - it is the means whereby mortals are drawn to renounce the ultimacy of the joys of this world in favour of that true joy that they had only, even at their best, anticipated. 'For now we see but as in a glass darkly, but then face to face'.

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