Lucy Barfield and The Chronicles of Narnia
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 2:00 pm
Next Monday, 2010 May 3rd, it will be seven years since Lucy Barfield died. Most of us know about her very little and some of us may be wonderng what kind of a person she was. And what did her Goodfather, Jack or C.S. Lewis, really know and think about her - to make her such a gift which took him many years to complete.
There is a question which comes back to my mind again and again. Would there be, would we still have The Chronicles of Narnia had there been no Lucy Barfield? In The Lion and the Witch her Goodfather is saying to her: "I wrote this story for you". Could he also have written it for someone else? Could he have said what he said to her - in some other words - to anybody else? In a certain way he also includes all other Narnia books as well - which originally were not planned but which, once The Lion and the Witch was finished, simply followed.
Never was I able to come to a satisfactory and final answer. So I finally decided to try to ask others first. What do you think? And why?
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There is a question which comes back to my mind again and again. Would there be, would we still have The Chronicles of Narnia had there been no Lucy Barfield? In The Lion and the Witch her Goodfather is saying to her: "I wrote this story for you". Could he also have written it for someone else? Could he have said what he said to her - in some other words - to anybody else? In a certain way he also includes all other Narnia books as well - which originally were not planned but which, once The Lion and the Witch was finished, simply followed.
Never was I able to come to a satisfactory and final answer. So I finally decided to try to ask others first. What do you think? And why?
.