C. S. Lewis's attitude towards any form of modernism was neatly encapsulated by a remark he made during a lecture on medieval poetry in 1938: "And then the Renaissance came along and spoiled everything."
Clive Staples Lewis was educated in England, attending Oxford in 1917. World War I interrupted his studies and Lewis served in the trenches for two years. In 1919 he returned to Oxford, where he remained until 1954. An atheist, Lewis converted to Christianity in 1929, and spent his life pursuing many interests: his acclaimed Narnia books and a trilogy of space travel novels; books concerning religion; and an academic career in medieval and renaissance literature. In 1955, Lewis moved on to Magda more...
Clive Staples Lewis was educated in England, attending Oxford in 1917. World War I interrupted his studies and Lewis served in the trenches for two years. In 1919 he returned to Oxford, where he remained until 1954. An atheist, Lewis converted to Christianity in 1929, and spent his life pursuing many interests: his acclaimed Narnia books and a trilogy of space travel novels; books concerning religion; and an academic career in medieval and renaissance literature. In 1955, Lewis moved on to Magdalen College, Cambridge University; in 1956 he married Joy Davidman Gresham, who died in 1960. Lewis survived her by three years.less...
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'Out Of The Silent Planet' (1938) by C.S. Lewis *****
At the age of 41 I finally got round to buying C.S. Lewis's renowned sci-fi trilogy. Had read this first volume in school when I remember enjoying its imaginative description of a completely alien world but being disappointed at the lack of death and mayhem I had come to expect from pulp genre material. Now of course I can appreciate this as a wondrous fairy-tale like allegory of man's fall from grace and brutal detachment from the natural order of things. Three men depicting the differing motivations of humanity - Ransom the mystic, Weston the scientist & Devine the businessman - react instinctively and honestly to the utopian world of Malacandra (Mars) in which the three intelligent but very different alien races - the intellectually curious Sorn, the carefree artistic Hrossa and the hyperactively industrious Pfifltriggi - are completely at one with their surroundings and make no bones about ethnic divergence, sharing of resources, sex or death, etc. Lewis spares the human race nothing in his brutally simple juxtaposition of our values with their's... and as this was written in 1938 with the world staring armageddon in the face I find it hard to disagree with him.
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'Out Of The Silent Planet' (1938) by C.S. Lewis *****
At the age of 41 I finally got round to buying C.S. Lewis's renowned sci-fi trilogy. Had read this first volume in school when I remember enjoying its imaginative description of a completely alien world but being disappointed at the lack of death and mayhem I had come to expect from pulp genre material. Now of course I can appreciate this as a wondrous fairy-tale like allegory of man's fall from grace and brutal detachment from the natural order of things. Three men depicting the differing motivations of humanity - Ransom the mystic, Weston the scientist & Devine the businessman - react instinctively and honestly to the utopian world of Malacandra (Mars) in which the three intelligent but very different alien races - the intellectually curious Sorn, the carefree artistic Hrossa and the hyperactively industrious Pfifltriggi - are completely at one with their surroundings and make no bones about ethnic divergence, sharing of resources, sex or death, etc. Lewis spares the human race nothing in his brutally simple juxtaposition of our values with their's... and as this was written in 1938 with the world staring armageddon in the face I find it hard to disagree with him.