The story begins in London during the summer of 1900. Two children, Digory and Polly, meet while playing in the adjacent gardens of a row of terraced houses. Polly lives in row housing. One day, while she is in her garden, a grubby faced young boy pokes his head over the wall from the garden next door. Since no children had ever been in that house before, Polly is curious. The boy had apparently been crying and Like most of us, Lewis seems to feel a deep need know what is right--to be right. Yet his experiences have shown him, again and again, that we are fundamentally ignorant, despite our most devoted attempts to be knowledgeable. It's an impassable contradiction. Cuando las cosas marchan mal, uno descubre que por lo general acostumbran a ir de mal en peor, pero cuando las cosas por fin empiezan a ir bien, a menudo mejoran y mejoran sin parar’’. Mi calificación es de 3.5 estrellas y espero con ansías leer su continuación El león, la bruja y el armario; ya que aquí se dejó el camino pavimentado para adentrarse en esta secuela. Y aunque recién haya terminado esta primera entrega, me interesa la saga en su totalidad. Cuando esto ocurra, en la reseña correspondiente a la séptima y última parte, les incluiré mi top 7 personal.

También me di cuenta de un par de incoherencias que hay en esta novela, pero que son mínimas e insignificantes. Por ejemplo: Jadis puede leer las mentes o los pensamientos, cosa que la hace prever traiciones; pero está muy insistente en que el tío Andrew realmente es un gran rey y hechicero, y ella no cree cuando le niegan eso. Si podía leer mentes, ¿cómo no notó que le decían la verdad? A lo mejor su poder se encontraba debilitado por estar en la Tierra o por lo que pasó en el Bosque entre mundos, pero también presentó esa misma incongruencia en Charn, su propio mundo... I hadn't been to Narnia in 11 years, and I wanted to take my daughters there for the very first time this summer, so I called my son (my Narnia expert) and asked him if I could skip The Magician's Nephew this time around, when I read it to his sisters. One day in London, two children, Polly and Digory, meet, and they accidently encounter Uncle Andrew who sends them on an incredible adventure. The children find themselves in new worlds and meeting new world leaders. On their quest, they have to make many difficult choices and to whom they are going to listen. Get ready for a magically delicious journey! Por otra parte, en cierto punto de la aventura, se da un claro y agradable mensaje animalista que es muy bien recibido, ya que no está rebuscado ni es populista, como muy probablemente pudiese ser en el caso de una lectura de tiempos actuales con sesgados fines sociopolíticos. Sammons, Martha C. (2004). A Guide Through Narnia. Regent College Publishing. pp.128–9. ISBN 1-57383-308-8.Lewis had his way to tell the story. He thoroughly showed me about this world where the origin of Narnia comes from. Not only I got to know about the wardrobe, but I was introduced to the characer that would be a big part in the next book. The Magician's Nephew should be read before The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for you to get full knowledge about this world. Harris, Aurand; Lewis, C.S.; Penn, William A. (1984). The magician's nephew: a dramatization. Dramatic Publishing. pp.4–5. ISBN 0-87129-541-5. This book literally made me feel like that. I kept wondering why I did and figured out because of its voice that was very classic and magical that I didn't want it to be over. Besides the fun I get from this book, The Magician's Nephew is alike a doctrine as if I was reading the Bible. The original opening of the novel differs greatly from the published version, and was abandoned by Lewis. It is now known as 'The Lefay Fragment', and is named after MrsLefay, Digory's fairy godmother, who is mentioned in the final version as Uncle Andrew's godmother, a less benevolent user of magic, who bequeathed him the box of dust used to create the magic rings. [9]

Is this the first book in the series! Is it the sixth? Does it even matter? I'm reading it first because I conducted a very thorough investigation into the series and determined that my plan to read them this way is the right way to read them. However, my very scientific thorough analysis also concluded that this book can be read later and no one really cares and it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Just read the series is all I'm saying, although I haven't even read the series myself so that may be moderately premature on my part. Asimismo, hubo algo que llamó sobremanera mi atención, y es que, por más posible e hipotética intención de manipulación tentativa que haya habido por parte de Jadis, para evidente y posiblemente hacer caer a Digory, es raro que una mujer adulta le diga y proponga esto a un niño: ‘’¿Sabes qué es esa fruta? Te lo diré. Es la manzana de la juventud, la manzana de la vida. Lo sé porque la he probado; y noto ya esos cambios en mí misma que sé que jamás envejeceré ni moriré. Cómetela, muchacho, cómetela; y tú y yo viviremos para siempre y seremos el rey y la reina de todo este mundo..., o de tu mundo, si decidimos regresar allí’’.This is the perfect introduction to Narnia that shows how the world was created, the origins of the lamp post and how evil came to enter. If you are new to the series I would recommend starting with this book first as you can get an idea of the world, how it was created and some of the history which will help make sense of things as you read the rest of the chronicles. Ha obtenido lo que más deseaba; posee energía inagotable e infinitos días de vida, como una diosa. Pero una vida larga con un corazón malvado no es otra cosa que un sufrimiento interminable y ya empieza a darse cuenta de ello. Todos obtienen lo que desean; no a todos les gusta’’. Digory ya no sentiría miedo del tío Andrew jamás, igual que uno tampoco sentiría miedo de un gusano después de haberse tropezado con una serpiente de cascabel ni le temería a una vaca después de enfrentarse a un toro enloquecido’’.

O sea que, si Digory hubiese aceptado y cae en la tentación por la manzana, ¿se iba a unir a Jadis como posible pareja en algún futuro cercano y/o distante? Como dije, puede que solo haya sido un intento de manipulación en base a sus intereses, pero ¿y si no? Por último y para concluir, quiero citar lo siguiente: ‘’Cuando regresó, fue Polly quién bajó y se dio un baño; al menos eso fue lo que dijo que había estado haciendo, pero nosotros sabemos que no era demasiado buena nadadora y tal vez sea mejor no hacer demasiadas preguntas’’.

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The Magician's Nephew is a prequel to the series. The middle third of the novel features the creation of the Narnia world by Aslan the lion, centred on a section of a lamp-post brought by accidental observers from London in 1900. The visitors then participate in the beginning of Narnia's history, 1000 years before The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe [a] (which inaugurated the series in 1950).

Hardy, Elizabeth Baird (2007). Milton, Spenser and The Chronicles of Narnia: literary sources for the C. S. Lewis novels. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-2876-2. pp30–34 On March 22, 2011 it was announced that The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew would be the next film in the series. Digory: He's so different from all of Lewis' other English boys - you can really see the budding scholar in Digory. The flame will burn him, but he HAS to touch it to make sure. Digory has an inherently curious and busy mind and needs to test and question everything around him. Naturally, in the form of a little boy who hasn't learned a lot of restraint yet, that will lead to complications. He has an ego that sometimes comes with being academic, and is very much afraid of looking foolish and often does foolish things to preserve his dignity. And yet, there is a sweetness to Digory, a depth of grief that is missing in the other young heroes of The Chronicles of Narnia. The arc between him and his mother is raw, beautiful, and heartbreaking. We rarely get to see filial love in The Chronicles of Narnia, and it was so precious to witness. I also noticed that, as a Victorian boy, Digory was the most gentlemanly of the English boys - always helping Polly in and out of things or up onto things. In some ways, he is the weakest of all the English boys in Narnia, but in other ways, he is the strongest, and shares an unusual connection with Aslan, for it only they that truly understand sorrow.

To an extent, Narnia is protected by the obliviousness of those who reject Aslan. “Son of Adam,’” Aslan tells Digory after he plants the protective Apple Tree, “‘you have sown well. And you, Narnians, let it be your first care to guard this Tree, for it is your Shield. […] [W]hile that Tree flourishes [ the Witch] will never come down into Narnia. She dare not come within a hundred miles of the Tree, for its smell, which is joy and life and health to you, is death and horror and despair to her.’” In other words, the overflowing life of this Tree—again, a kind of echo of Aslan’s own life—repels those who do not recognize Aslan’s beauty. The threat posed by Uncle Andrew can be disposed of more easily, because it’s a more naïve misreading of what Narnia is. The Witch’s threat, however, will require ongoing vigilance. Those who dislike and mistrust Aslan fail to recognize the beauty of his creation, and they seek to misuse it or are altogether repelled by it. For instance, Uncle Andrew’s first instinct is to assume that Narnia can be exploited for material gain: “I have discovered a world where everything is bursting with life and growth. Columbus, now, they talk about Columbus. But what was America to this? The commercial possibilities of this country are unbounded. Bring a few old bits of scrap iron here, bury ’em, and up they come as brand new railway engines, battleships, anything you please. […] I shall be a millionaire. And then the climate! I feel years younger already. I can run it as a health resort. A good sanatorium here might be worth twenty thousand a year. Of course I shall have to let a few people into the secret. The first thing is to get that brute shot.” Uncle Andrew’s first reaction to Narnia’s bursting life is not grateful wonder. Rather, it’s a cynical desire to use Narnia to enrich himself—exploiting the land’s magical properties to “grow” machines of war, and exploiting people’s vulnerabilities to make himself rich through a health resort. Ultimately, he wants to use Narnia as a means to increase his own notoriety. To do all this, Uncle Andrew will have to kill Aslan. His ambitions show that he fundamentally misunderstands not just Narnia, but Aslan as its very source of life. Without Aslan as Narnia’s creator and ruler, the kingdom’s beauty and value can’t continue to exist as it does. Otra inconsistencia es en relación con unos caramelos, a lo que Polly indica: ‘’ Todavía tengo los restos de aquella bolsa de caramelos en la chaqueta’’; pero es la primera vez en toda la historia en que se mencionan tales dulces, y que fueron traídos a colación como si ya se habría dicho algo al respecto con anterioridad. Parallels may also be found in Lewis's other writings. Jadis's references to "reasons of State", and her claim to own the people of Charn and to be beyond morality, represent the eclipse of the medieval Christian belief in natural law by the political concept of sovereignty, as embodied first in royal absolutism and then in modern dictatorships. [26] Uncle Andrew represents the Faustian element in the origins of modern science. [27] The Holy Spirit and the breath of life [ edit ]