“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
– C.S. Lewis
On this day, November 22, 1963, the world lost a great man. An infinite voice. An unequaled imagination.
From Wikipedia:
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly called C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as “Jack”, was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, and Christian apologist. Born in Belfast, Ireland, he held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–1954, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–1963. He is best known both for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” – C.S. Lewis
According to The Guardian, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’ passing, Cambridge University Press is is publishing a new collection of criticism and reviews by Lewis which includes a never-before-seen essay rescued from a fire at the Lewis family home. Written in a ruled school notebook (the kind that Lewis favoured) and possibly intended for publication by TS Eliot in the Criterion, the title essay “Image and Imagination” is an extraordinary rumination on the relationship between art and truth, literature and the imagination.
You can find C.S. Lewis’ new book – Image and Imagination – HERE.
You can find out more about C.S. Lewis at the Official C.S. Lewis website HERE.
You can read the Wikipedia entry HERE.