Durante décadas, a vida e a mente de C.S. Lewis têm fascinado aqueles que leem seus escritos. Prolífico escritor e pensador, sua correspondência pessoal revela muito sobre a sua vida privada, suas reflexões, amizades e sentimentos. Nesta coletânea organizada por Walter Hooper, é possível conhecer os caminhos percorridos pelo escritor através das cartas enviadas por ele para seus familiares e amigos, dentre eles, personalidades como J.R.R. Tolkien e Dorothy L. Sayers.
As cartas, organizadas em ordem cronológica, tratam dos diversos interesses do escritor, passando pela teologia, crítica literária, poesia, fantasia e histórias infantis. A partir delas é possível acompanhar o amadurecimento de Lewis, desde seus anos no exército, passando pela vida acadêmica em Oxford, seus primeiros passos na fé cristã e os anos de escrita de algumas de suas maiores obras.
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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