He would write about something, but it would contain and mean a lot of other things.
Just from reading all seven books in the Narnia series, I believe that Lewis is such a complex writer. It didn’t do the story justice, but I guess this is one of those times when the saying, “don’t judge a book by its cover”, actually applies. Now, cover-wise I think this book could do with better cover artwork this one was just too bland and boring. Although I’m not a fan of Cupid and Psyche’s love story (if one is to call that a love story), I thought it would be interesting to see someone like Lewis doing a retelling of a famous work before him. But, I wanted something that is not too complicated, something I could enjoy because I already have an interest first this is where this book comes in.
In all honesty, it was easy to found one, seeing that Lewis does not exclusively wrote children’s books. I can’t quite remember why I picked this book, I remember this was when I was still doing my masters in Seoul and I went through my second obsession on Narnia and thought that I must, at the very least, read another work from Lewis that is completely different from Narnia. to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean that’s the whole art and joy of words. Set against the backdrop of Glome, a barbaric, pre-Christian world, the struggles between sacred and profane love are illuminated as Orual learns that we cannot understand the intent of the gods “till we have faces” and sincerity in our souls and selves. Much to Orual’s frustration, Psyche is loved by Cupid, the god of love himself, setting the troubled Orual on a path of moral development. This is the story of Orual, Psyche’s embittered and ugly older sister, who posessively and harmfully loves Psyche. Lewis reworks the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche into an enduring piece of contemporary fiction. In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S.
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