C.S. Lewis makes an argument that “good reading” consists in laying down one’s own point of view. This, Lewis explains, is a type of “dying,” but in this dying, we find that we truly become ourselves as we escape ourselves.
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The Unliterary Person
The main distinction Lewis makes between the literary and unliterary person can be seen in their approach to literature.
Reading the Bible as a Literary Person
Unfortunately, it is this type of pragmatic unliterariness that so pervades many Christians’
C.S. Lewis on Being a Literary Person
No doubt there are many morals and messages held in the great works of literature. However, to approach a work of literature with the sole intention of mining these things is to approach literature as an unliterary person. In the case of the literary person, they approach a great work with the main intention to sit under the author’s tutelage. In this