Perelandra

a novel

190 pages

English language

Published 1996 by Scribner Classics.

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2 stars (1 review)

Dr. Ransom is ordered to Perelandra by the supreme being, and there he finds a Garden of Eden.

26 editions

Ugh

2 stars

Lots of beautiful prose but it starts to lose its charm when one of the characters starts ranting against dualism moments before revealing he is possessed by a demon.

At points I felt like CS Lewis was stopping the fiction to beat me over the head with his belief system — like with the long rant about gender and how mountains are metaphysically masculine, yada yada.

I haven’t read Paradise Lost so I suspect a lot of stuff from this book is lost on me from a “oh look he is referencing great literature” standpoint.

Subjects

  • Ransom, Elwin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Life on other planets -- Fiction
  • College teachers -- Fiction
  • Good and evil -- Fiction
  • Philologists -- Fiction
  • Linguists -- Fiction