If you’ve ever felt disappointed in a love of any kind, betrayed in your expectations about what should have been or doubted God’s goodness in the hardships of it all, you’ll understand Orual as she tells us her story. She will have us hear her story: a story of her love for Psyche and the trickery of the god who wished to have her youngest sister as his bride. Orual is a compelling narrator: a strong female utterly convinced of the injustice done to her. His narrator is not the innocent Psyche, the beloved of Eros himself, but a character of Lewis’ own creation: Psyche’s older sister Orual, who addresses us by announcing that she’s come to lay out her case against the gods. Lewis takes an imaginative risk in his masterful retelling of the classic Cupid and Psyche myth. Lewis offers a tale that slips by stealth beneath those masks and releases us into the slow liberation of becoming our true selves. In Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold C.S.
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