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When reading, I can often intimate the answers to them. How can there be “ love that is not love?”īut there are other questions that still gnaw at me.How is the critical moment of transformation in the text related to Lewis’ theological understanding of human experience and God’s character?.What is the novel’s relationship to the cross–an event that will come later in the secondary world that he has created?.

How do we read TWHF in the midst of Lewis’ life?.

How does Till We Have Faces connect to the rest of Lewis’ fiction?.

Over time, some questions have settled in for me: Unlike some work that is obscure or poorly written, each time I have read the book I have deepened in my knowledge. Part of this hesitancy, I think, is that I don’t fully understand the novel. And, despite all this, I have struggled to talk about Lewis’ only work of “ literary fiction” for the blogging community. Moreover, Till We Have Faces is critical to my research into C.S. These teaching times have included several close readings of texts.

I have several hours of lectures about the novel, and get to teach it twice this semester–once at The King’s College, and once at Signum University, with two weeks in each class for discussion. I know of many people who resist Lewis’ work, but admit that Till We Have Faces is among the 20th century’s important novels.Īnd, despite this, in more than 900 posts, I have never really blogged about Till We Have Faces. The writing is elegant, the portrait is intimate, the transformational element is intricately tied to the psychological development in Orual’s tale, and the fictional world is complete. It is the dying-days journal of Orual, Queen of Glome, who sues her capricious gods for their unfairness to her. Lewis’ most genius work of fiction, Till We Have Facestruly is a remarkable novel. Though I am always nudging readers to see The Great Divorce as C.S.