Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, January 1st, 2000
DURING the late 1930s and early 1940s, C. S. Lewis composed a space trilogy set on Mars, Venus, and Earth, respectively. In the middle novel, Perelandra, Lewis imagines a new myth of the Fall--only this time there is no Fall. Instead, through their obedience, Lewis' primal pair achieve for themselves and their posterity a more glorious, exalted mode of life than that which we endure owing to "Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste / Brought Death into the World, and all our woe" (Paradise Lost 1.1-3).(1) Published only a year after A Preface to Par...
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