I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C.S. Lewis As a literary scholar, I cannot help but continue to be captivated by C.S. Lewis as he exemplifies a multifaceted scholar that achieved to connect “the self” with “the other” at multiple levels. He dared to interweave literature and fantasy in the highest academic terms and share it to both; the literary versed as well as to a broad public not related to the literary world. C.S. Lewis was profoundly human and profoundly Christian. He drew from those depths and shared precious thoughts and images that populated his writing. The readers of all ages were prone to let them be fascinated and initiated into the wonderful world of literary fantasy. He was a Christian that was not afraid to ask the hard questions and be challenged while challenging God to answer the difficult questions of life. In this scenario, the fantastic world did not detour very far from the mystical world and in his fantastic literary works he accomplished what few had been able to manage, to merge both worlds into one without devaluating neither of them. C.S. Lewis proposes a fantastic literary cosmogony allied to the mystical world establishing a passage where the earthly human experience can expand. In his own words: “Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” Graciela S. Boruszko, Ph.D.
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