Bibliograph

A grief observed, C.S. Lewis

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A grief observed, C.S. Lewis

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A grief observed

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

432317153

Responsibility statement

C.S. Lewis

Summary

Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," "A grief observed" is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a man, or at any rate a man like me, out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself." This is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe and how he can gradually regain his bearings

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