![]() According to conventional readings, the deities in the That has not, however, preventedĬritics from alternately reading simplistic typology into the story andĬomplaining that the Christian typology they attribute to the novel is Typology is obvious, Till We Have Faces offers a strange mixture of Lewis's Narnia books or his Ransom trilogy, in which the spiritualĭrama occurs mostly in secondary worlds where Lewis's Christian Readers toward the novel's mythic undercurrent. Indeed, the novel's subtitle, A Myth Retold, unsubtly nudges Historical novel about the royal family of a small kingdom on theĭistant margins of the Hellenistic world lies a mysterious story thatĪstute readers soon come to recognize as the myth of Cupid and Psyche. Is its ambiguity: underneath what at first appears to be a realistic, ![]() Unfortunately, did not agree, and the book has languished in the shadows Lewis published Till We Have Faces in 1959, heĬonsidered it the best piece of fiction he had ever written.
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