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Also, the other day I got a copy of C.S. Lewis' Till We Have Faces at the Vic book sale:
1. Barbarian goddesses! Court intrigue! Warrior queens! Greek philosophers! Eunuchs! (well, only one). At yet it's recognizably Lewis - imagine the Calormene parts of The Horse and his Boy expanded to full novel form.
2. There's also something of the heroines of The Woman In White in Istra (Psyche) and Orual, the opposing but devoted half-sisters in this novel.
3. Having followed some of the discussion re Narnia books and whether or not Susan got a fair shake, this strikes me as Lewis fan-ficcing Cupid & Psyche because he felt Psyche's sisters didn't get a fair shake in Ovid's version - ie Ovid has them pester her into looking at her mysterious husband out of jealousy, rather than because they really think she's nuts, living in a palace they can't see and sleeping with someone she can't see.
1. Barbarian goddesses! Court intrigue! Warrior queens! Greek philosophers! Eunuchs! (well, only one). At yet it's recognizably Lewis - imagine the Calormene parts of The Horse and his Boy expanded to full novel form.
2. There's also something of the heroines of The Woman In White in Istra (Psyche) and Orual, the opposing but devoted half-sisters in this novel.
3. Having followed some of the discussion re Narnia books and whether or not Susan got a fair shake, this strikes me as Lewis fan-ficcing Cupid & Psyche because he felt Psyche's sisters didn't get a fair shake in Ovid's version - ie Ovid has them pester her into looking at her mysterious husband out of jealousy, rather than because they really think she's nuts, living in a palace they can't see and sleeping with someone she can't see.
