\nIn response to my post<\/a> on PRISONER OF NARNIA<\/a>, two friends wrote by email. They have given me permission to quote their email here.\n<\/p>\n \nSharon Gallagher, editor of Radix Magazine<\/a>, wrote:\n<\/p>\n \n In my Radix (31:3) interview with Norman Stone, the director of the first Shadowlands<\/em>, \n I wish that The New Yorker<\/em> had given this assignment \nGinny Hearn wrote:\n<\/p>\n The quote in your blog from Adam Gopnik (11\/20) ended like this, in his discussion of CSL's A Grief Observed<\/em>: \"Lewis ended up in a state of uncertain personal faith that seems to the unbeliever comfortingly like doubt.\" <\/p>\n \nHmmmmm. It's been many years since I read AGO, but this statement is In response to my post on PRISONER OF NARNIA, two friends wrote by email. They have given me permission to quote their email here. Sharon Gallagher, editor of Radix Magazine, wrote: I just read the Gopnik article this week and … Continue reading I just read the Gopnik article this week and was
\nunhappy with it. I'm not surprised that Gopnik likes the A.N. Wilson
\nbiography. He takes Wilson's interpretations of Lewis's faith and
\nsexuality and presents them as fact. Other biographers came to
\ndifferent conclusions. He also adopts Wilson's condescending attitude
\ntoward faith. <\/p>\n
\nNorman is quite clear that Lewis's faith sustained him during Joy's
\nillness and death. (Norman had talked with people who knew Lewis at the
\ntime.) <\/p>\n
\nto either John Updike or Malcolm Gladwell--two of their superstars who
\nwould have handled the material with more understanding. (I've been a
\nbig fan of Gopnik's other writing and even bought his book about Living in Paris<\/em>.)\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n\n
\napt to be read as \"In his life, Lewis ended up in a state of uncertain
\npersonal faith . . . \", which is not accurate. I recall that this book,
\nwritten in a journal-like fashion in the several months following the
\ndeath of Joy, expressed CSL's understandable, terrible anguish at her
\nloss after their brief marriage--but Lewis did NOT end up in the doubt
\n[or unbelief in Christianity] that this statement might imply to an
\nunbeliever looking for \"comfort\" in his or her doubt. <\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"