An author’s lasting enthusiasm about a work can, I think, indicate similar quality. If the professor is enthusiastic about teaching the class, there’s a very good chance it will be particularly enjoyable and worthwhile for the students. I compare it to the way I’ve been excited every time when, on the first day of a college class, a professor lets slip that this class - the one that I’m in right now - is his or her favorite of the quarter.
Lewis said he considered Till We Have Faces his best-written book. It is, however, the one Lewis called his favorite.
Yet beyond the widely read Chronicles of Narnia, it’s still a better wager that any given person has read Mere Christianity, or The Screwtape Letters, or The Great Divorce, and probably even Lewis’s space trilogy, rather than Till We Have Faces. The recent movies based on two of the Narnia books have probably given them a secure place as Lewis’s best known. produced." -New York Herald TribuneĪ novel, suggested by the tale of Cupid and Psyche, of the struggle between unselfish faith and selfish pride, of the spirit and the flesh.Till We Have Faces is by no means C. "The most significant and triumphant work that Lewis has. deepens for adults that sense of wonder and strange truth which delights children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and other legends of Narnia." -New York Times "Till We Have Faces succeeds in presenting with imaginative directness what its author has described elsewhere as ‘the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live’. Only at the end of her life, in visions of her lost beloved sister, will she hear an answer. Orual is left alone to grow in power but never in love, to wonder at the silence of the gods. Psyche is forbidden to look upon the god’s face, but is persuaded by her sister to do so she is banished for her betrayal.
Disfigured and embittered, Orual loves her younger sister to a fault and suffers deeply when she is sent away to Cupid, the God of the Mountain. Lewis wrote this, his last, extraordinary novel, to retell their story through the gaze of Psyche’s sister, Orual. Haunted by the myth of Cupid and Psyche throughout his life, C.S. Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?” “I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer.
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