![]() ![]() Stage adaptations have toured internationally, a film adaptation is rumoured, and it has inspired several unofficial sequels and knock-offs.īut I think it's rubbish, and I want to say why. Better judges than me, including the late, lauded American writer, David Foster Wallace, saw Screwtape as a classic. The book's flaws may not be as significant as they seem to me, and I expect I don't fully appreciate its redeeming qualities, such as they are. So, I'll admit, my view of things is a little jaundiced. It steered me towards a superstitious, histrionic way of thinking about spiritual matters - a way of thinking that's disdained not only by religious sceptics, but also by most mature Christians. I read Screwtape as an impressionable adolescent, and it did a number on me. He also wrote The Screwtape Letters: a noxious little book that should at last be recognised for what it is. He produced an influential and wildly popular piece of fantasy with The Chronicles of Narnia, and influenced millions with his Christian apologetic works. ![]() He was an eminent scholar of medieval and renaissance literature. ![]()
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