"An author doesn't necessarily understand the meaning of his own story better than anyone else."
In a letter to professor Clyde S. Kilby about his novel Til We Have Faces. 10 Feb 1957
W.H. Lewis ed. The Letters of C.S. Lewis (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World Inc., 1966) 273.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Humility
When we “receive” it [the text] we exert our senses and imagination and various other powers according to a pattern invented by the artist. When we “use” it we treat it as assistance for our own activities…”Using” is inferior to “reception” because art, if used rather than received, merely facilitates, brightens, relieves or palliates our life, and does not add to it.
C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Cambridge: University Press, 1961), 88.
C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (Cambridge: University Press, 1961), 88.
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