Ivanair: переводы

→The advent of the Internet has made many Narnia-related resources available. The best Lewis site to date is http:// cslewis.drzeus.net/

→But the pivotal insight that clinches the argument is found in the scene just cited: “None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do; but the moment the Beaver had spoken these words everyone felt quite different.” (LWW 8) The five words I have emphasized show that we must read the books in the order in which they first came to the attention of the world of readers and rereaders, in the order in which the meaning of these glorious books grew beyond Lewis’s late-formed intention to revise them. His intention to emend the books—agreed to just two days before he died—is inferior to his attention to their meaning and their success at that level (his deeper intention).

→Consider how The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe introduces the mystery of a world within a wardrobe and builds to the first use of the name “Narnia” in paragraph 10 of Chapter 2 and the revelation of Aslan in Chapter 7, “A Day with the Beavers.” Contrariwise, The Magician’s Nephew plops the reader unmysteriously into the plot of the whole series, using “Narnia” as the fortieth word a reader will now encounter.

→My worry is that the decision to reorder the books chronologically diminishes their impact on future readers, indeed, impedes readers from moving from The Magician’s Nephew to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and thus to the end, which is “only the beginning of the real story.”

→I urge all readers of the Chronicles of Narnia to “Remember ‘245-3617,’” that is, rearrange the post-1994 HarperCollins reordering before you read the books!

→The Pocket Companion to Narnia studies the Chronicles in a slight adaptation of the canonical order, what I have called the “order by essential completion.” This order makes possible the reading of the book with the heart by attending to them in the order in which they came to Lewis’s own heart and mind. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (spring 1949) Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia (fall 1949) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (winter 1950) The Horse and His Boy (spring 1950)

→The Best Reading Order—the Order by Essential Completion by Lewis Himself “Remember 245-3617”

→ENTRY TITLES — Abbreviated book titles and chapter numbers indicate where the topic under discussion can be found in the Chronicles. For instance, “SC 3 and 4” refers you to chapters 3 and 4 of The Silver Chair. Small Capitals are used to alert you to a cross reference, namely, a separate entry on this person, place, thing, or idea.1 Singular and plural verb and noun forms of the entry title will both be set in small capitals (e.g., animal and animals, pray and prayer).

→How to Read a Sample Entry

→“[SPOILER(S)]” means “Don’t read the next sentence/paragraph if you have not yet read the book in question because it tells you something very important to the story.” At the end of some entries you will find cross references not specifically mentioned in the text listed in [brackets]. [astronomy, narnian; providence.]

→Aslan’s name; Aslan’s voice; Centaurs; Depravity; Domesticity; Dryad(s); Edmund Pevensie; Emperor-beyond-the-Sea; Hierarchy; King(s), queen(s); Lucy Pevensie; Magic; Numinous; Peter Pevensie; Plato; Son of Adam, Daughter of Eve; Susan Pevensie; Tree(s); Tumnus; White Witch.

→Using the Pocket Companion, Advice to an Intelligent Reader, Aslan; Autobiographical allusion(s); Biblical allusion(s); Feeling(s); Imagination; Literary allusion(s); Magic; Mythology; Profession(s) of faith; Stock response(s). If you have time, see also: Adult(s); Animal(s); Autobiographical Allusion(s); Children; “For the first time”; Geography, Narnian (plus the maps in the middle of the book); King(s), queen(s); Pain; Plato; Prayer; Providence; Silence; Sleep; Smell(s); Sound(s); Youth; and Appendices One and Two.

→Another way to begin is by consulting the following essential entries.

→Major Characters and Places. The following entries are major characters and places and are a good place to start your reading of this Pocket Companion to Narnia. Aravis, Aslan, Bree, Cair Paravel, Caspian X (Prince Caspian), Digory Kirke, Edmund Pevensie, Eustace Clarence Scrubb, Hwin, Jill Pole, Lucy Pevensie, Narnia, Peter Pevensie, Polly Plummer, Puddleglum, Reepicheep, Shasta, Susan Pevensie, White Witch.

→How to Find an Entry

→He went through all the pains of his childhood again, as well as the pain of a husband and stepfather, when he married a woman dying of cancer who would soon leave two sons bereft of a mother. In spite of these experiences, Lewis believed that the possibility of pain has to exist in a world like ours of humans and animals; otherwise, one human or animal would not know where it/she/he ended and another human or animal began. When we bump into one another in one way or another, sometimes pain is the result.

→Lewis also experienced emotional pain, perhaps the greatest of which was at the death of his mother from cancer when he was nine. He agonized over his brother Warren’s absence during World War II and struggle with alcoholism.

→PAIN, HUMAN AND ANIMAL — C. S. Lewis took
human and animal pain extremely seriously. Pain was part of Lewis’s autobiography (as it is of every life): He suffered from physical and emotional pain. He hated going to the dentist but knew that the dentist needed to inflict some pain in order to heal his frequent toothaches. He was wounded in World War I and suffered from ag ing and disability.

→in which the adventures of Shasta and Aravis take place. It is ended when Edmund, Lucy, Susan, and Peter vanish from Narnia during the hunt for the White Stag. During the Golden Age, all that is best of Narnian life is in full bloom: There are many more Talking Beasts than ever afterward; Narnia is a great sea power; the smaller woodland people and animals of Narnia feel so safe and secure that they get a bit careless, even ignoring the Calor mene threat; the fierce giants are driven away; and Narnia forms peaceful, friendly alliances with countries “across the sea.” (PC 4 and 5; VDT 2, 13, and 15; HHB 1 and 12; SC 3; and LB 4).

→сноска See Lewis’s outline of Narnian history in The Land of Narnia, 31.