🪶 Ex Libris Abstractio Jocqus

A Very Short Introduction to C.S. Lewis

Notes

Lewsian Character

  • Locked-in: constantly working from dawn till day's end, like J.S. Bach.
  • Bigoted: anti-Catholic since childhood, and he never shook it
  • "portly"
  • A "life of the party" figure
  • Outspoken (to state the obvious)
  • A legit English poet

Noteworthy Books About Lewis

  • C.S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith

Works of Interest

  • The Chronicles of Narnia
  • Till We Have Faces

    • Seems like his Finnegan's Wake
  • Mere Christianity

Biographical Tidbits

  • T.S. Eliot and Lewis met, and bristled at one another, but kept in touch, and – eventually - became good friends.