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The World of Narnia, journey to the edge of infinity

2020-07-20T02:34:17.721Z


IMAGINARY JOURNEYS (1/6) - C. S. Lewis imagined an Edenic country hidden in a wardrobe. The first story in a fabulous saga where the forces of evil fight against those who serve the lion Aslan.


Artists and writers have pushed the boundaries of the world by inventing new kingdoms. And composed a geography that has become familiar today.

He loved nothing so much as smoking a cigar, chatting for whole nights with his great friend Tolkien, with whom he shared the same love of tales and myths, and the same fascination for the biblical story and the mysteries of faith. It is also the author of the Lord of the ringsthat this agnostic must have become a Christian. Professor of Middle Ages and Renaissance literature at Oxford University then at Cambridge, CS Lewis was a brilliant critic, a romantic and infinitely sensitive man. He loved to walk around and be moved by the vitality of the world. So much beauty, he felt, hides something wonderful. “See a universe in a grain of sand, and a paradise in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour, " wrote William Blake ...

This wonderful, he loved to imagine.

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