The Chronicles of Narnia: plan, general concept, chronological framework. The Chronicles of Narnia

Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

N. N. Mamaeva

Clive Staples Lewis was an Oxford scholar, philologist, theologian, and specialist in the history of medieval literature. He is the author of literary works, philosophical and religious treatises “Love”, “Suffering”, “Miracle”, allegories “The Roundabout Path” and “Dissolution of Marriage”, a science fiction trilogy and, finally, “The Chronicles of Narnia”. C. S. Lewis was part of the same literary circle as J. R. R. Tolkien, just like him, he wrote fairy tales for children in which he talked about eternal questions Genesis, asserted the possibility and necessity of the existence of Good in this world.

Lewis wrote his Chronicles of Narnia for seven years (1950–1956), a year based on the book (Lewis C. S. Chronicles of Narnia. London, 1950–1956). The first translation of Lewis's fairy tale was published by the publishing house "Children's Literature" in 1978, translated by Mr. Ostrovskaya 1. After this there came a break that lasted 13 years. Although translations of The Chronicles of Narnia were made by N. Trauberg back in the 80s, they saw the light only in the early 90s. At the same time, other works by Lewis began to be published, in which their Christian content was completely obvious and which, quite naturally, could not be published in the USSR 2 . In 1998, the Alexander Men Foundation made an attempt to release the 8-volume collected works of Clive Staples Lewis 3 . Currently, two of the promised eight volumes have been published, but it seems that the publication of the works of C. S. Lewis will end there due to financial problems. As for studying the work of C.S. Lewis, here in domestic literary criticism there is a huge gap. We can name only small introductory articles, preceding editions of certain works of Lewis 4 . As for the 8-volume collected works, which the A. Me Foundation began to publish, it examines Lewis’s work purely within the framework of theology 5 . Therefore, in our research we had to rely only on our own opinion and on the texts of Lewis himself 6.

In his Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis talks about the creation magical land Narnia by the lion Aslan, about its history, wars and invasions, kings and queens and its end. The heroes of the book are the boy Digory and the girl Polly, who were present at the birth of Narnia, the Pevensie siblings, who became the High Kings of Narnia, and their friends Eustace and Jill.

To create his world, Lewis turns to mythology. This is a long-standing English tradition literary fairy tale: Kipling, Barry, Travers, Tolkien often borrowed their stories from myths. But Lewis surpassed all his predecessors. He turns to the ancient Eastern, ancient, German-Scandinavian, medieval European, Christian traditions. His Narnia is inhabited by fauns, satyrs, naiads, dryads, unicorns, gnomes (these are the gnomes of English legends, squat, stocky creatures with thick, coarse hair and long beards, and German dwarfs with pig faces, cock combs and tails), talking animals folk tales and, finally, characters invented by the author himself, for example, herons. The gods of Tarkhistan, neighboring Narnia, seem to have descended from Hittite reliefs. Thus, the main goddess Tash is a man with the head of a bird of prey and four arms. And the servant of the White Witch, the wolf Mogrin, goes back to the Scandinavian Fenrir. Lewis often uses plots from ancient myths and literary works: Prince Rabadash, turned into a donkey for stupidity and meanness, takes on his human form at the autumn festival of the goddess Tash ("Golden Ass"), Bacchus turns nasty schoolchildren into piglets, the classroom is transformed into a forest clearing, and their teacher joins his retinue (legends about Dionysus and the pirates, King Pentheus, daughters of Minias), on the Island of Dead Water the heroes find a stream, the water of which turns everything that comes into contact with it into gold (the myth of King Midas).

But the main source for Lewis was, of course, the Gospel. It is not for nothing that his book is sometimes called a children's Christian catechism.

The creator of Narnia, the lion Aslan, is one of the hypostases of Jesus Christ. According to medieval tradition, the lion is a symbol of Christ. In one of the books, Aslan appears in the form of a lamb, which is already a direct borrowing from the Gospel.

Lewis writes about Aslan's "royal and peaceful and at the same time sad" look, that he was "kind and formidable" at the same time. The golden radiance of Aslan’s mane, which the author constantly mentions, is associated with the gold of the halo. In Narnia they swear by the name of Aslan, the heroes say: “In the name of Aslan,” “I ask you by Aslan,” and the hermit even exclaims “Merciful Aslan!” 7. A stream originates from Aslan’s footprint, which is reminiscent of numerous medieval legends about the cutting of springs. According to the Bible, “God is light,” and as we move east to Aslan’s country, the water itself becomes like light, the light permeates the entire world surrounding the heroes, and the very name of the story and the ship on which they travel is “Sailing into the Dawn.”

The Great Lion creates Narnia with his song and gives its inhabitants the basic commandment: “And all of you love one another.” He determines that Narnia can only be ruled by the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve. All this is a paraphrase corresponding lines Books of Genesis (Genesis 1, 26–27). The commandments that Aslan gives to the Narnians come from the commandments of Moses and the Sermon on the Mount. Aslan demands love, humility and repentance from the inhabitants of his country. He condemns any, even the weakest, attempt to shift one’s guilt onto another: “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not feel the beam in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:5). Edmund committed the betrayal, but this is also Peter’s fault, since he was too harsh with his brother. Peter, Susan and Edmund do not believe Lucy when she says that she sees Aslan, and it is their fault, because their own shortcomings do not allow them to see him, but Lucy is also guilty because she could not convince them. Aslan punishes Aravita, following the commandment “an eye for an eye” - she receives as many wounds as the maid received for her escape.

Lewis very elegantly addresses one of the most controversial theological issues about the divinity and humanity of Jesus Christ. The talking horse Igogo, arguing a little naively on this topic, ends his speech with the conclusion: “You can understand how absurd it is to count ( we're talking about about Aslan) his real lion. Moreover, it is disrespectful." At this time Aslan appears and says: "And you, Igogo, you poor and proud horse, come closer. Touch me. Here are my paws, here is my tail, here are my whiskers. I, like you, am an animal." 8 Thus, Lewis resolves this issue in favor of the human (lion) nature of God.

The gospel defines the major themes of Lewis's books. It is the themes and plots that remain traditionally fairy tales: the fight against the evil witch, the search, the journey, the matchmaking, the escape. The theme running throughout the chronicles is redemption. In a fairy tale, the hero traditionally receives a reward for his feat, and the feat is usually performed with the expectation of reward. In the story “The Sorcerer’s Nephew”, Digory, getting a magic apple that should ensure the prosperity of Narnia for many centuries to come, does not expect to receive anything (even though he needs medicine for his sick mother), with this he atones for his guilt, since it is precisely because of him Out of curiosity, an evil witch appeared in Narnia. Lewis plays out the plot with the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in a unique way. In both the Bible and Lewis, the cause of evil was curiosity: in the first case, Eve, in the second, Digory, who, by ringing the bell, woke up the sleeping Jadis. But if in the Holy Scriptures the apple was the cause of the Fall, here, on the contrary, it is the guarantee of salvation.

Atonement for Edmund's betrayal, Aslan allows himself to be stabbed by the White Witch. But with the first rays of the sun he is resurrected, for the sacrifice was made voluntarily, innocent blood was shed, and the evil spell was dispelled. Aslan, like Christ, atones for the sins of people with his blood.

The second theme is also evangelical - temptation. This is not the temptation of wealth, power, power, no, this is the temptation of good, but imaginary good. The witch persuades Digory not to give the apple to Aslan, but to take it to his mother. Digory withstands temptation and eventually receives the desired fruit from the hands of Aslan himself. Truly, it is impossible to create any other good than God's.

Likewise, Lucy, leafing through the book of the wizard Coriakin, gives in to the temptation of finding out what others think of her, but this does not bring her joy, since because of this she almost loses her friend.

And one more question that Lewis’s heroes constantly solve is the choice of path in the broad sense of the word. How to distinguish true from false, genuine from imaginary, divine from devilish. The witch appears in the guise of a beautiful woman, and only when the heroes find the strength to resist her witchcraft does she acquire her true appearance of a monstrous snake. And the captive prince initially appears before them as a madman and a monster. The world and its reflection (this idea, borrowed by Lewis from Plato, will receive its most complete development in last book) is not easy to distinguish. What is the Sun, just a big lamp, as the witch claims, or is the lamp a weak semblance of the Sun?

Aslan rarely helps the hero resolve this issue. In general, he does not appear on the pages of the book often, is not always shown in his true appearance and prefers to speak in riddles, like the Son of God. For only the elect can hear the Word of God: “Blessed are your eyes that see and your ears that hear” (Matthew 13:16).

Lewis's characters eventually commit right choice. But if a person himself does not want to see the truth, if he has locked himself in the prison of his imagination, then no one, not even God, can help him. “For the hearts of these people have become hardened, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes” (Matthew 13:15). Uncle Digory convinced himself that the lion could not sing, and when spoken to, he heard only a roar. The dwarves, having arrived in Aslan's country, convinced themselves that they were sitting in a dirty stable, and saw nothing but walls, dung and straw, although a green meadow stretched around. Verily, everyone is rewarded according to his faith.

A worthy place is occupied by the fantasy novel “The Chronicles of Narnia”, written by Clive Lewis. A scientist, teacher, theologian, primarily an English and Irish writer, he became the author of many works that struck the hearts of readers.

short biography

Clive Lewis was born on November 29, 1898 in Ireland into a poor family of a lawyer. As a young man he went to England and lived there until the end of his days.

He graduated from school in 1917 and immediately entered Oxford University College. Due to conscription into the army, he was forced to interrupt his education. Participated in the First World War. He was wounded and demobilized in 1918 with the rank of junior officer. He immediately returned to his studies. In 1924 he received the right to teach.

Clive Lewis, whose biography is being described, began writing early. In 1919, the first collection of his poems was published. Dymer's second collection of poetry was published in 1926. A young author is published under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.

At the same time with literary activity he teaches English classes at Oxford, Magdalen College.

In 1931 he converted to Christianity. His decision was influenced by conversations with John Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, who were devout Catholics and found a way to the writer’s heart. Clive Lewis soulfully describes his decision in his work “Overtaken by Joy.”

During World War II he was a member of the BBC's Religious Broadcasting Service. He reflected his impressions of wartime in the book “Simply Christianity.”

He continues to work actively in the literary field. In 1950, he began the children's fantasy novel The Chronicles of Narnia, which brought him worldwide fame.

In 1954 he moved to teach English philology at Cambridge, and a year later he was solemnly accepted as a member of the British Academy.

In 1956, he married a terminally ill American woman, Joy Davidman. Together they travel around Greece, admiring the ancient beauty and nature of Athens, Rhodes, Mycenae and Heracleion. On July 13, 1960, Lewis's wife dies of cancer.

In 1963, the writer retired due to heart disease and kidney problems. 11/22/1963 Clive Lewis died. He was buried in Oxford near the Church of the Holy Trinity.

Achievements and awards

For his work in the literary field, the talented writer was nominated three times for a prestigious retrospective award:

• In 1939 for the science fiction "Beyond the Silent Planet". It is interesting that the hero of the novel, Professor Weston, says that he spaceship driven by unknown solar radiation. A few decades later, scientists discovered the special radiation of the Sun and invented the solar sail.
• In 1946 for the work "The Vile Power".
• In 1951, for the first book of the bestseller "The Chronicles of Narnia" - "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

In 1975, 1976 and 1977, Clive Lewis, whose works captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world, received the Grandmaster of Fantasy award.

In 2003 and 2008, a Hall of Fame was organized in honor of the novel “The Vile Power.”

Bibliography

Since 1919, the master of English literature worked without interruptions or creative crises. Every work was highly appreciated literary circles and was warmly received by the reader.

Works of Clive Lewis:

• collections of poems "The Oppressed Spirit" and "Daymer";
• written in fantasy style are “Until We Found Faces” and the “Chronicles of Narnia” series of seven books: “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, “Prince Caspian”, “The Treader of the Dawn Treader”, “The Silver Chair”, “The Horse and the Boy” , "The Sorcerer's Nephew", " last fight";
• "Beyond the Silent Planet", "Perelandra", "The Vile Power";
• religious works: "Pilgrim's Wanderings", "Suffering", "Letters of Screwtape", "Dissolution of Marriage", "Miracle", "Toast of Screwtape", "Mere Christianity", "Reflections on the Psalms", "Four Loves", "Exploring Sorrow" ";
• works on the history of literature: "Preface to the book" Lost heaven", "English literature 16th century", "Century";
• works on philology: "Allergy from love: medieval traditions."

"The Chronicles of Narnia"

Exactly this famous work Clive Lewis. The series is written in the fantasy genre and consists of seven books. All of them are thematically interconnected, but each is logically complete and can be read as an independent work.

This is essentially a fairy tale. It talks about three ordinary children who find themselves in Magic world and managed to overcome difficult obstacles. Clive Lewis, whose quotes have become catchphrases, teaches morality, not to give in to difficulties, to fight evil.

The fairy tale was immediately translated into 15 languages ​​of the world; to date, the circulation of books has exceeded 100 million copies. The novel has been filmed several times.

Clive Staples Lewis

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Sorcerer's Nephew

Preface. TEN YEARS LATER

I really, really regret that when I was little I didn’t know children’s books. English writer Clive Lewis. It seems to me that children who are read these books before bed must then become better, and, therefore, kinder. It also seems to me that it is very difficult for anyone who knows and remembers the heroes of Lewis’s books to do harm to a person or an animal. You will soon see this for yourself.

Some people may shush me, but I will still say: in my opinion, Clive Lewis is one of the most interesting writers, from the many I have read in my life. He wrote many books, more than forty, and among them seven were especially for children. For children, Lewis invented the country of Narnia, where the sad animals there, unlike the sad animals of real countries, talk to each other. You say - think! In many fairy tales, animals talk. Yes it's true. But take a closer look, listen to Lewis's animals. If you only knew how wise their speeches are often... Oh, excuse me, you will soon find out. You could say that Lewis's children's stories are fairy tales, and yet they are somehow not just fairy tales in themselves. Clive Lewis is always hinting at something, winking, making eyes that are either scary or funny. What is he hinting at... Maybe you yourself can guess “what” and write to us?

Clive Staples Lewis was not just a writer, but also a professor at two of the most famous universities in the world - Oxford and Cambridge. He wrote historical, theological, and literary books. Some of them are still studied by university students. Here is such a scary scientist, but he went and wrote books for children. I sometimes wonder why books for children are often written by serious, learned, intelligent people. And I come to the conclusion: a stupid person would consider it stupid to write books for children. And even if he does write them, his children probably won’t read them. After all, children are serious, wise, cheerful people, and only a writer with the same qualities can write for them. That's what Clive Lewis was. It was not for nothing that he well understood the words of Jesus Christ addressed to people: “Be like children.” He knew that Jesus wanted to see people open, spontaneous, cheerful. The first story from the children's series "Narnia" - "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" was published in Moscow in 1978 by the publishing house "Children's Literature". And now we have decided to continue this wonderful beginning and ten years later we are releasing two other books in this series. Agree, their names delight the heart: “The Sorcerer’s Nephew” and “The Silver Chair.” Actually, they are the third and fourth in this children's series. No, we know arithmetic, it’s just that translations of these books came from Russia earlier than others. But don't be discouraged, each of the books in this series is completely understandable even when read out of order. In general, we have planned to release all of C.S. Lewis's children's books.

Lewis is familiar to adults and children in many parts of the world. He was loved by thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people. From his books it is clear that he responded to this with love. His books are filled with wonderful biblical symbols, meanings, and consonances. Here is at least the first line that came to mind: “O children of Adam, how you know how to defend yourself from everything that can bring you good!”

No matter which Lewis book you pick up, especially a children’s book, you will feel under its lines an underground stream filled with compassion for your neighbor, which is also called love. You can see the source from which the stream of Compassion flows. This source is Christ. The stream washes human hearts and souls, and they revive, bloom, and bear amazing fruits. All this in Greek is called agape, in Hebrew - ahob, ahava - the Love of God, the Love of Christ, Who himself is nothing other than Love.

I'll quickly tell you how Lewis once showed his love. He fell in love with a woman, and suddenly it turned out that she had cancer. Contrary to the logic of the philistines and pragmatists, when he learned about this, he invited her to marry him. This woman named Joy (joy) also loved him. She was supposed to die soon, but because Lewis loved her very deeply and very tenderly, she lived for another four years.

The preface to Clive Lewis’s first children’s book published in Russian, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” (Moscow, 1978), states that he was an anti-fascist. And this is true, but Lewis was also a believer, a Christian. In all his books, both for children and adults, the thoughtful reader will see the constant presence of Good with capital letters. The fact is that Lewis was convinced: Good is present in life thanks to Christ. Or, it itself is Christ. It seems that I contradict myself, I just said: Christ is Love, and now: Christ is Good. Both statements are true. And this is not my opinion, not my conclusions. This is what the Bible says, the Word of God, which was written by people under the guidance (i.e., with the help) of God. Here are the words from the Bible: “God is love”; "Love from God"; “The love of Christ embraces us”; “Whoever does good is from God”; “I (Christ) am the good shepherd.”

Our publishing house has published several of Lewis’s excellent books for adults in Russian: “Letters of a Screwtape,” “Pain,” “The Essence of Christianity.” In them, Lewis describes how his soul and mind are looking for Jesus everywhere, love Jesus, how they want to know more and better about Him. And there, honest Clive Lewis writes that people, often united under beautiful signs, fight with Christ. Even those who call themselves Christians.

We are very glad that great writers who were once largely taken away are returning to Soviet readers large and small: O. Mandelstam, N. Gumilyov, D. Kharms, M. Tsvetaeva, N. Oleinikov, B. Pasternak, E. Shvarts. Many books are being returned, and most importantly, in our opinion, the Bible is returning. The ability to search, find, and believe returns. This colors our times with the colors of hope. The color of Christ is white, personifying purity and sinlessness. White color purification and hope is becoming in many ways the color of Russia today.

I have already said: the names of writers and books are being returned. But Christ does not return to Russia, He has always been there. No slander, untruths or new crucifixions could stain His white robes. All these years He was what He once called Himself: the dear, the truth, the meaning of life (remember: “I am the way, the truth and the life”).

Our desire to continue introducing you to Lewis coincided with the desire the best people Russia to introduce readers to other, once rejected, wonderful writers. Wise, cheerful, kind Lewis is undoubtedly among them. And if someday his books help you do good, be honest, discover God for yourself, then we will consider that we have fulfilled Lewis’s wish.

Like many good people, Clive Lewis loved fairy tales. Like many creatively gifted children, he began composing in childhood. As a boy, he came up with a certain Animal Country called Boxen and willingly told his brother and parents about it, however, his stories were already seasoned with a fair amount of tediousness: Lewis never knew how to capture the imagination. The death of her mother and training at Wynyard, apparently, made Jackie's character less open, but contributed to the development of a sense of humor and a brilliant ability to use irony.

Lewis told his next tale only thirty years later. During World War II, four children stayed at Lewis's home, and he was surprised to learn how few imaginative stories his young guests knew. He decided to sketch out for them a story about how four children, whose names were Anne, Martin, Rose and Peter, were expelled from London due to air attacks on the city, and settled with an old and lonely professor. That's all he wrote at the time, but, a few years later, he returned to the story. The children (who were now named Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) found their way to another world - a land he would eventually call Narnia, presumably after the Italian city of Narni.

The author himself wrote about the Chronicles: “The whole story of Narnia speaks of Christ. In other words, I asked myself: “What if there really was a world like Narnia, and it went down the wrong path (as happened with our world)? What would happen if Christ came to save that world (as He saved ours)? These stories serve as my answer. I reasoned that since Narnia was a world of talking animals, He too would become a Talking Animal, just as He became a Man. in our world. I depicted Him as a lion because: the lion is considered the king of beasts; in the Bible, Christ is called “the lion of the tribe of Judah.” And also: “I wrote the kind of books that I myself would like to read, that’s what always prompted me to take it.” by the pen, Nobody wants to write the books I need, so I have to do it myself..."

Lewis created Narnia as flat but quite vast. As Mr. Tumnus says, Narnia is ... all the space between the lamppost and the huge castle of Cair Paraval on the eastern sea. ("Caer Paraval" means "Under Judgment" - from the Old English "caer" = "court" and "paravail" = "lesser" or "under"). In the mountains south of Narnia is the friendly Orland (Archenland), where the ruler a side branch of the royal dynasty of Ker-Paraval. In addition, Narnia owns several islands in the eastern ocean. Even further to the east there is a whole necklace of magical islands, each of which has its own miracle, on another dreams come true, the third is ruled. an old man - a retired star... And behind them is the edge of the world, where the sea falls into infinity with a majestic waterfall. However, somewhere there, in the east, perhaps outside the world of Narnia, is the country of Aslan - a high, flowering one. the mountain where the divine Lion lives and from where he comes to his wards in difficult times. And difficult times often come in Narnia, for it is surrounded by warlike and powerful neighbors. South of the Orlandian mountains, beyond the desert, lies the huge empire of Tarkhistan (Calormenes), founded by fugitives from Orland. Dark and power-hungry Tarkhans rule here, slavery and conquest are the order of the day, northerners and intelligent animals are not liked here, and the cruel goddess Tash is worshiped. The Tarkhistanis tried more than once to capture Narnia, but until the last the north repelled their armies. Relations with Narnia's western neighbor, Telmar, were less successful. This country was founded by the descendants of earthly pirates who discovered a passage to another world on their island. The Telmarines conquered Narnia and for a long time at the very least they ruled it - after all, they were also the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve. This was also the time of the reign of King Caspian X the Navigator, which became, perhaps, the Golden Age of Narnia.

The world of Narnia is full magical secrets and riddles. It is inhabited by fabulous creatures from different mythologies world: fauns, centaurs, gnomes, talking animals. The author's goal was to create a new, but easily recognizable reality from known elements. This world was created by the lion Aslan with the help of a song, its harmonious harmony is preserved by the laws that he wrote and at the same time cannot transgress. In this Aslan is quite consistent Christian ideas about God who cannot deny Himself. (2 Timothy 2:13 “...if we are unfaithful, He remains faithful , for He cannot deny Himself." In the world of Narnia, everything is the limit of human dreams, and Lewis repeatedly emphasizes this. Narnia is a special world with amazing nature and a beautiful change of seasons, a place where the best music in the world sounds, where there is no death from illness or accident. All the heroes of the fairy tale die in the battle for Good. But since Good is inseparable from Evil, Narnia also has enemies, such as the White Witch Jadis, her companions: witches, minotaurs, werewolves, and her supporting part of gnomes and giants. However, all injustices and hardships are covered by the motive of Joy. Lewis wrote the word “Joy” with a capital letter and understood by it some great Joy that has not yet come, but will certainly come.

However, Lewis's task was not to create new reality, but an artistic reflection of modern reality. The grass in Narnia grows the same way, and the birds sing the same way, the sun shines during the day and the moon shines at night, a person gets tired while climbing a mountain, he needs food and drink. By the way, it is through food and drink that Lewis constantly emphasizes the reality, recognition and intimacy of Narnia. Every time the heroes sit down at the table, or even just on the green grass, the author, with great seriousness, tells us in detail the menu of their meal. And the landscapes of Narnia (and Lewis is a great master of landscape) are the landscapes of our world, only ennobled, without factory chimneys and oil films on the rivers. Narnia is doubly attractive: both for its wonder and strangeness, and for its similarity and recognition. It’s not without reason that you can get into it in different ways: using magic rings or simply by entering a wardrobe there are other ways, magical or mundane). The Narnian time is especially interesting from this point of view. For someone who is in Narnia, time flows quite normally: minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day. But for an observer from our world, it does absolutely incredible things: it will start like a courier train, then... as if tired, he switches to quick step. No direct correspondence between our time and the time of Narnia can be established.

"Chronicles" consists of seven parts:

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1950,

2. Prince Caspian (Prince Caspian, 1951),

3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, or Voyage to the End of the World the Dawn Treader, 1952),

4. The Silver Chair (1953)

5. The Horse and his Boy (1954),

6. The Magician's Nephew (The Magician's Nephew, 1955),

7. The Last Battle (1956)

In the first, which is called "The Sorcerer's Nephew", Aslan creates the world with a song. In the second, he sacrifices himself and defeats the White Witch. In the seventh, “The Last Battle,” Narnia dies, but continues to live in eternity... In the remaining books, children find themselves in Narnia in the most unexpected way, when they themselves do not expect it - through a picture in the living room, through a suddenly opened portal in the subway, just then, when they are needed most and find themselves on incredible adventures.