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Review of A Grief Observed (Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis) by A Reader
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-07 07:00:34.
(Language: English)
  
I'm hesitant to thump my drum for CS Lewis. He's touted by Gen X'ers and my fellow Gen Y'ers as basically the greatest Christian writer since Paul. There is a cult of celebrity at work with which I take issue (his writing is not as great as many seem to think nor was his theology perfect).However, my ground-to-a-nub axe aside, "A Grief Observed" is a profound work. For anyone who's ever suffered any kind of serious loss, CS Lewis' memoir will ring many familiar bells. When I read this a few years ago, I was in the throes of a deep grief-driven depression and more than once I would stop, close the book, and marvel, "I could've written this."--not in a self-flattering, narcissistic way, but in the sense that no matter what kind of grief you're suffering, this small, intimate diary of one man's journey through the pain will resonate; its familiarity transcends genders, generations and genres of grief (feel free to sneer at the alliteration). If you're suffering through the loss of a loved one or perhaps ANY kind of grief, CS Lewis' private struggle will show you that you are not trespassing in territory so terrible that you're alone, and that no valley is too dark to be lost in forever, nor so desolate that your spirit will starve. 
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