Monday, October 25, 2010

Charles Williams: Spirit in Bondage?

Just a continuation of my last post on De Sade. It seems to me that not only Williams, but also Lewis, were infected with a certain amount of sexual sadism in their writing. Spirits in Bondage may refer to many things other than Christianity. Lewis's letters to Arthur Greeves could be seen as a possible indicator of this, if we were actually sure Walter Hooper was giving us the complete letters of C.S. Lewis, unadulterated by editorial influence. I am reading Williams's All Hallow's Eve, and the note of sexual oppression in that novel is intense. I really need to stop reading Christian authors for a while, if for no other reason than it giving me a warped vision of contemporary sexual practices.

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