LEWIS, Clive Staples (1898-1963). Writer on religious topics and for children.
Typewritten Letter Signed to [Dr Neville Julian] Carlile, 1 page oblong on a small slip (stained and soiled), Magdalen College, Oxford, 3 Ap[ril 1946. Discussing a misunderstanding regarding his fantasy The Great Divorce: A Dream [1945] ('your objection is wholly sound: but it is not an objection to what I really say').

'... The book is a fantasy, not an account of what happens after death. It is not about a second choice but an attempt to make clear what the one choice is. I make George Macdonald [sic] say so. Does'nt [sic] he say that the Grey Town is not Hell to those who leave it, but will always have been Hell to those who stay? Your objection is wholly sound: but it is not an objection to what I really say. ...'

C.S. Lewis's 'The Great Divorce' is considered by some to be one of his finest works of fiction. The narrator is effectively Lewis himself and the writer whom he meets in the course of the adventure is George MacDonald (1824-1905, Scottish writer).
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