Magician's Nephew (The Chronicles of Narnia): Discover where the magic began in this illustrated prequel to the children’s classics by C.S. Lewis: Book 1

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It's a comforting worldview, one many of us feel drawn to, that sense of isolation, 'us against the world', the need to be right at all costs, to be different from those we habitually condemn, to know what is good and what is not--but it is not a coherent philosophy, it is not conducive to self-awareness, and it's certainly not the sort of thing we need to be feeding our children. Indeed, the only thing such self-justification invites is further ignorance, prejudice, and conflict. 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). Walden Media's Option for a Fourth Narnia film Expires". ChristianCinema.com. 18 October 2011. Confirmed 10 December 2012. Four years before the publication of the first Narnia book, Lewis had written as follows on the experience of reading really good poetry for the first time:

My son was an only child for 12 years, (before the Disney princesses, Pocahontas and Jasmine, arrived), and I read to him, every night, religiously, for an hour, including C.S. Lewis's Narnia collection. In October 2018, Netflix announced an agreement with the C.S. Lewis Company. Netflix will develop and produce new series and movies based on The Chronicles of Narnia. Mark Gordon of Entertainment One, Douglas Gresham and Vincent Sieber will serve as producers for films and executive producers for series. [50] TV [ edit ] Ford, Paul (2005). Companion to Narnia: Revised Edition. San Francisco: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-079127-8. 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.

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Beasts ( Bears, Cheetahs, Dogs, Leopards, Elephants, Moose, Badgers, Deer, Rats, Eagles, Hares, Tigers, Foxes, Horses, Bulls and Cows, Ferrets, Kangaroos, Sheep, a Warthog, Doves, Horses, Rhinoceros, Hedgehog, Bird, Squirrels, Apes, Owls etc.). Si a lo anterior le sumamos que en este libro hay un nexo dimensional al que se le conoce como el Bosque entre los mundos ( Wood Between the Worlds), y que a lo que aludí primeramente como el Mundo entre mundos ( The World Between Worlds), que igualmente funciona como nexo, es obvio de donde salió la inspiración para crear esto en la serie animada de Star Wars. Te pillamos po', compadre Filoni. El mundo entre mundos funciona como el Bosque entre los mundos, pero basado en como se veían los primeros minutos de Narnia. 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. Y es que sí, C.S. Lewis, todos tenemos necesidades fisiológicas. Pero dado el contexto y la fértil etapa de rebosante vida primigenia en que se encontraba Narnia durante aquel momento, me dejarás con la eterna duda de que si efectivamente, ¿habrá crecido allí un árbol de caca posterior a esto?

Their aloneness is broken by the sound of a singing Voice, a lovely Voice that brought fear and wonder to the hearts of the strangers. Wether it was coming from all around them at once, or only from beneath them, they were unable to tell. Suddenly stars appear overhead and thousands of voices join with the first Voice. They sing with it for a time before fading away, but the first Voice continues to grow in strength. As the sound grows, the horizon begins to become lighter and as the music reaches its climax, the sun rises for the first time. The witch appears to understand the music, Andrew is horrified, and the others listen in warm contentment. 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’’. The two think that the event is over when they hear a sound from the end of the room. The last figure, the fiercely beautiful one, rises from her chair and comes to the children, asking how she has been awakened. Digory takes responsibility for her waking. The woman states that Digory is not of royal blood and asks how he came to the palace. Polly answers that they came by magic. Ignoring Polly, the queen again asks Digory if it is true. He responds affirmatively and the woman grabs him suddenly by the chin and studies him for several minutes before surmising that he is not a magician but rather traveled on another person's magic. Digory tells her that it was Uncle Andrew's doing. 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 Lewis really writes an engaging fantasy tale that is surprising full of beautiful descriptions rather than nonstop action. I appreciate the world building in the book which I found pretty detailed for a children's book. I also like that I don't really know some of the characters well, but feel like the less important ones are gonna be showing up later on down the road.Obviamente no hay que esperar espectacularidad por doquier o algo así, ya que ésta es una obra de naturaleza introductoria y a la vez explicativa sobre el futuro de la saga. Estamos ante una precuela cosmogónica y fundacional, por lo que obviamente no será lo más apoteósico o trepidante del mundo. Aun así, cumple totalmente su objetivo de entretener y mantenernos atrapado capítulo tras capítulo, ya que estos te enganchan por como terminan, para que quieras leer el siguiente de forma inmediata; por lo que es una novela que se lee muy rápido y que no aburre en ningún momento.