In the 14th episode of our series focussing on McGrath’s book, CS Lewis: A Life, we look at Lewis’ deep anguish following the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, and explore his approach to suffering in A Grief Observed.
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“The Seven Chronicles of Narnia” in 1950 to 1956. In 1955, Lewis charts his change from atheism toChristianityin the book “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Life”. Lewis describes the feeling of loss of his wife in 1963 through his book “Grief Observed.” His last work was “The...
His father Albert was so swallowed in grief and self-pity that he pushed his two sons away physically and emotionally. Being afraid of his father as a child, CS Lewis described his dad as a man with “a bad temper, very sensible, nice when not in a bad temper.” His father’s emoti...
Lewis had worked over the ground in theory. After his wife’s death he had to do the work again, this time in raw dismay: dismay not only at the terrible event itself, but at his reaction to it. Unless his faith in the afterlife is childish and literal, the pain of loss is often...
This is very similar to what we find in the posthumously publishedA Grief Observed.This quote is part of a letter to Sir Henry Willink of Magdalene College who, in December 1959, had just lost his wife (Joy would die in July 1960 but certainly Lewis was already thinking about loss and ...
#lovewins. For those not on twitter, you can see a sample of the rejoicinghere. I couldn’t help but be reminded of the scene from the 2005 production of CS Lewis’The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.Aslan has surrendered himself to the witch. The witch ...
It was written shortly after the death of Lewis's wife and was published under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. The Great Divorce(1945) A work of fiction that depicts the journey of spirits through Hell/Purgatory to Heaven The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature(...
Lewis was offered the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge in 1954, a position he held until his death. In 1956 he married Joy Davidman Gresham, the American poet and novelist, who was diagnosed with cancer later that year. Despite his wife's illness, Lewis achieved in his...
About LEGO® IDEAS submission designer, Jaijaj Lewis: •Jaijai Lewis, a marketing professional from New York City, has worked on various versions of the model since 2014. •Before this set, he submitted two other iterations, with both reaching the 10,000 LEGO Ideas supporters required to...