This is to say, it touches the deepest longings, fears, and questions of an examined heart, and calls to wake those - long-locked-away - in the unexamined heart and mind. dream the seen vs.the unseen life and death good and evil honor and humility courage and cowardice hope and despair. It begs the questions of such investigations into reality vs.
(And all these I loved too!) Phantastes somehow reaches past faeries and crones and transmutational beautiful ladies, through the veil in our own hearts to the unseen world. It, along with At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin and its sequel The Princess and Curdie, were noted as instrumental and highly inspirational in the writings of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis as they wrote the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy, respectively. Phantastes is a famous classic by George MacDonald who is credited with the reintroduction of fairytales into modern literature. Madeleine L'Engle said, Surely, George MacDonald is the grandfather of us all all of us who struggle to come to terms with truth through fantasy. Tolkien called his fairy tales stories of power and beauty. Lewis said, I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him.
MacDonald's fantasy novel as well as his other works have had major influence on many authors who considered him their mentor:Ĭ. "I write, not for children," wrote George MacDonald, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or 50, or 75." All-at-once written with an innocent whimsy and soulful yearning, the heart of Anodos' journey through fairyland reveals a spiritual quest that requires a surrender of the self. Lewis and Tolkien, considered one of George MacDonald's most important works, is the story of the young man, Anodos, and his adventures in fairyland which ultimately reveal the human condition.
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