C.S. Lewis' Fiction

C.S. Lewis' fiction joins imaginative storytelling with questions about the direction of human desire and the choices that form character. The Chronicles of Narnia uses journeys, talking animals, and the presence of Aslan to explore loyalty, temptation, repentance, and sacrificial love. Out of the Silent Planet places an encounter with an unfamiliar world within a larger moral and spiritual struggle. The Screwtape Letters approaches temptation through the unsettling irony of a tempter's advice. Christian belief informs these works, but their literary methods differ: adventure, dialogue, and satire each make room for acts of courage or self-deception that acquire significance through the course of a story.