George MacDonald: Difference between revisions

* [[Writer on Board]]

** An example that even this [[Tropes Are Not Bad|trope is not bad]]. [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] observed of Macdonald's non-fantasy novels, "Sometimes they diverge into direct and prolonged preachments which would be intolerable if a man were reading for the story, but which are in fact welcome because the author... is a supreme preacher."

 

* [[C. S. Lewis]] was particularly moved after reading ''Phantastes'', and much of Lewis' writing reflect the themes that MacDonald used. Accordingly, Lewis uses MacDonald as a [[The Mentor|guiding character]] - much like Dante used [[Virgil]] in ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' - in ''[[The Great Divorce]]''.