I LOVE THIS BOOK...so much so that I wrote my thesis for my MA in English Literature on this book. Lewis masterfully retells the story of Cupid and Psyche through the eyes of one of the sisters left behind. By developing Psyche's life through Orual's filter, we see not only Orual's motivations in he...
Since I am not an expert in Greek mythology I didn't know too much about the original Cupid/Psyche story. I did enjoy this story, although I found it dark and very heavy-handed when it came to Lewis' writing of his Christian beliefs. I found it interesting how he was able to work all of those into...
I was surprised when I was assigned this book for a senior college course because I'd never even heard of this book. Even though I haven't read all of C. S. Lewis' books, I had thought I'd heard about all of them. This seemed to have sprung up out of no where. Then I started to read it and I was eve...
[These notes were made in 1982:]. This is a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche, but a retelling with a deliberate and radical shift of emphasis so that the story ends up as a reinforcement of the Judaeo-Christian ethos - even tho' the Hebrew God and His Son never make any appearance in their ...
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