"Why Narnia Still Matters Today" from Time.com
"Why Narnia Still Matters Today" from Time.comLast November 22, 2013, C.S. Lewis reached his 50th death anniversary along with John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley.
Time.com posted about "Why Narnia Still Matters Today" and here's some excerpt:
"I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — the first installment in Lewis’ seven-part Chronicles of Narnia — when I was eight, and its effect on me was profound. That was the book that taught me what novels were: how they worked and what they were for, namely to whirl you out of this world in a storm of words and take you somewhere gloriously vivid and interesting, where, through some mysterious Deeper Magic, you learned something important about the world you’d just left. It is, apart from everything else, an allegory of reading itself: the wardrobe’s doors open like the cover of a book, allowing Lucy to disappear inside, like a reader into a novel, or at least a good one, which The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe surely is."
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