This work is a beautiful and resolute testament to how even an unconditional believer can lose the meaning of life, and how they can gradually reorient themselves.
Written after the tragic death of his beloved wife as a way to survive the “difficult midnight moments,” A Grief Observed recounts C. S. Lewis’s most sincere thoughts on the fundamental themes of life, death, and faith while experiencing loss. This work contains his most intimate reflections on that stage of his life.
"Nothing can affect a man - or at least a man like me - so that he loses his ideology and his beliefs. He has to face a great blow to come to his senses. Only torture will bring the truth. Only under torture will he be able to discover it for himself."
