Las Cronicas de Narnia (titulo original en ingles: The Chronicles of Narnia) es una heptalogia de libros juveniles escrita por el escritor y profesor anglo-irlandes C. S. Lewis entre 1950 y 1954, e ilustrado, en su version original, por Pauline Baynes. Relata las aventuras en Narnia, tierra de fantasia y magia creada por el autor, y poblada por animales parlantes y otras criaturas mitologicas que se ven envueltas en la eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal. Aslan, un legendario leon creador del pais de Narnia, se constituye como el autentico protagonista de todos los relatos (si bien los cuatro hermanos Pevensie: Peter, Susan, Lucy y Edmund, aunque ausentes directamente en dos titulos, sirven de hilo conductor)[cita requerida]. La saga es considerada un clasico de la literatura juvenil, y es el trabajo mas conocido del autor, habiendo vendido mas de 100 millones de ejemplares, y siendo traducida a mas de 41 idiomas. Las Cronicas de Narnia se han adaptado varias veces, completa o en parte, por la radio, la television, el cine y el teatro. Ademas de numerosos temas cristianos tradicionales, la serie toma los personajes y las ideas de la mitologia griega y la mitologia romana, asi como de los cuentos de hadas tradicionales britanicos e irlandeses."
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland, in Belfast on 29 November 1898. His mother was a devout Christian and made efforts to influence his beliefs. When she died in his early youth her influence waned and Lewis was subject to the musings and mutterings of his friends who were decidedly agnostic and atheistic. It would not be until later, in a moment of clear rationality that he first came to a belief in God and later became a Christian.
C. S. Lewis volunteered for the army in 1917 and was wounded in the trenches in World War I. After the war, he attended university at Oxford. Soon, he found himself on the faculty of Magdalen College where he taught Mediaeval and Renaissance English.
Throughout his academic career he wrote clearly on the topic of religion. His most famous works include the Screwtape Letters and the Chronicles of Narnia. The atmosphere at Oxford and Cambridge tended to skepticism. Lewis used this skepticism as a foil. He intelligently saw Christianity as a necessary fact that could be seen clearly in science.
"Surprised by Joy" is Lewis's autobiography chronicling his reluctant conversion from atheism to Christianity in 1931.
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