copperdaa.blogg.se - Till we have faces meaning

" Not the usual Lewis but quite interesting. Definitely the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship and writing. Much more beautiful than I remembered it. " Read several years ago, but recently attended a lecture on it and so reread it in preparation.

Took a while to get into it, but once I got used to the rhythm, language, names, etc it was a good read. " Interesting rendering of the tale of Cupid and Psyche in a 'pre-Christian' world.

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The last section was pretty deep - I think I might need to re-read it to fully appreciate/understand it. It's a 'twist' on the story of Pysche and Cupid. A colleague of mine lent me the book and said this was her favorite book by C.S. Lewis’ last work of fiction, this is often considered his best by critics. Her frustration and jealousy over Psyche’s fate sets Orual on the troubled path of self-discovery.

Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself, and Orual, Psyche’s unattractive and embittered older sister who loves Psyche with a destructive possessiveness. Lewis reworks the timeless myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction in this novel about the struggle between sacred and profane love.