Catherine Porter
The idea of longing is one present in many of C.S. Lewis works, as well as a part of many pieces of literature over time. Lewis deals with this idea directly in his novel Till We Have Faces. He writes “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born.” This quote directly deals with the nature of longing. It starts my saying that longing is one of the fundamental beauties in life; that we are born with a longing. This longing appears to be for what is desirable; the landscape, beauty, and a birth place. Tolkien discusses a similar notion in his essay entitled On Fairy- Stories, as he states “Fairy-stories were plainly not primarily concerned with possibility, but with desireability” (25). Thus, Till We Have Faces demonstrates this idea of longing, even the longing for what is desirable.
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