Perelandra

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C. S. Lewis 저자(글)

Scribner Book Company · 1996년 10월 01일

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Clive Staples Lewis, born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898, was for more than thirty years Fellow and Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, and at the time of his death in 1963 was professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge University. His many books -- of fiction, poetry, theology, literary scholarship, and autobiography -- include The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, Miracles, and the seven volumes that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia.
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, of whichPerelandrais the second volume, stands alongside such works as Albert Camus'sThe Plagueand George Orwell's1984as a timely parable that has become timeless, beloved by succeeding generations as much for the sheer wonder of its storytelling as for the significance of the moral concerns. For the trilogy's central figure, C. S. Lewis created perhaps the most memorable character of his career, the brilliant, clear-eyed, and fiercely brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ransom. Appropriately, Lewis modeled Dr. Ransom after his dear friend J. R. R. Tolkien, for in the scope of its imaginative achievement and the totality of its vision of not one but two imaginary worlds, the Space Trilogy is rivaled in this century only by Tolkien's trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Readers who fall in love with Lewis's fantasy series The Chronicles of Namia as children unfailingly cherish his Space Trilogy as adults; it, too, brings to life strange and magical realms in which epic battles are fought between the forces of light and those of darkness. But in the many layers of its allegory, and the sophistication and piercing brilliance of its insights into the human condition, it occupies a place among the English language's most extraordinary works for any age, and for all time.InPerelandra,Dr. Ransom is recruited by the denizens of Malacandra, befriended inOut of the Silent Planet,to rescue the edenic planet Perelandra and its peace-loving populace from a terrible threat: a malevolent being from another world who strives to create a new world order, and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so.
Commonweal Writing of the highest order. Perelandra is, from all standpoints, far superior to other tales of interplanetary adventures.
Los Angeles TimesLewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.
Los Angeles Times Lewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.
Los Angeles TimesLewis, perhaps more than any other twentieth-century writer, forced those who listened to him and read his works to come to terms with their own philosophical presuppositions.
The New YorkerIf wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.
The New Yorker If wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.
The New YorkerIf wit and wisdom, style and scholarship are requisites to passage through the pearly gates, Mr. Lewis will be among the angels.
The New York Times Mr. Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable.
The second book of Lewis's sci-fi trilogy, this is a sharp, sophisticated fantasy that deals with an old problem--temptation--in a new world, Perelandra. "Mr Lewis has a genius for making his fantasies livable".--The New York Times.

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저자(글) C. S. Lewis

20세기 지성의 거장이자, 매혹적인 상상력을 갖춘 명실공히 당대 최고의 영향력 있는 작가, 존경받는 스승이었다. 아일랜드 벨파스트에 있는 기독교 집안에서 태어났다. 자라면서 무신론에 심취했으나 온전한 회심을 경험하고 나서는 탁월하면서도 겸손한 기독교 사상가이자 작가로서 뛰어난 저작들을 남겼다. 오랜 시간 옥스퍼드대학교에서 영문학 교수를 지냈으며, 1954년부터 은퇴할 때까지 케임브리지대학교의 중세 및 르네상스문학 학과장으로 일했다. 40여 권의 폭넓은 저서를 통해 다양한 독자층과 만났으며, 지금도 수많은 새로운 독자들의 손에 작품이 들려지고 있다. 현재까지 1억 부 넘게 판매되고 장편 영화로도 제작되며 전 세계적으로 인정받는 판타지 고전 《나니아 연대기》(시공주니어)를 비롯해, 《순전한 기독교》, 《스크루테이프의 편지》, 《네 가지 사랑》, 《예기치 못한 기쁨》, 《영광의 무게》, 《개인 기도》(이상 홍성사) 등이 있다. 또한 최근 글을 모은 《기도의 자리로》, 《신자의 자리로》, 《책 읽는 삶》(이상 두란노)이 새롭게 선보였다.

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ISBN	9780684833651 ( 0684833654 )
발행(출시)일자	1996년 10월 01일
쪽수	192쪽
크기	156 * 249 * 22 mm / 426 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어