![]() ![]() While the connection makes sense to readers today, C.S. He writes to his brother that he might be weaker than some people, but “ while the speech lasts it is impossible not to waver just a little.” A reader familiar with The Screwtape Letters under the threat of Nazi Germany or in the years since can see a Hitlerian haunting in the Screwtapian logic. Lewis had listened to a speech of Hitler’s the previous night. According to a Saturday, Jletter to his brother, Major Warren Lewis (1895-1973), C.S. We have some indication of how The Screwtape Letters emerged in Lewis’s imagination, but the timeline for this process is confused. Lewis conceive of Screwtape ? Here’s the story. ![]() This is the nitty gritty of research, but still a lot of fun. This letter to his brother has caused a lot of confusion over the years, and I thought it would be interesting to post a bit of a paper I am working toward publication. Lewis’ works, I have finally come to the letters where he describes how he thought of The Screwtape Letters. ![]()
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