Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams (Chapters 3-4)

Sophie, Meagan, David, and Sorina join us for Descent Into Hell--possibly Charles Williams' most profound novel.  You can find the new audiobook by Apocryphile press here.

 

We discuss:

Quest of Hell

• The apparent plotlessness of Descent
• Wentworth's rejection of community
• How the novel is like a play
• Modernist drama
• C.S. Lewis' disastrous dinner with T.S. Eliot and Williams

Vision of Death

• Struther's Martyrdom
• The Right and Wrong way to recite poetry
• The Four Virtues of Poetry
• The Mountain of Abnegnos, meeting yourself, Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, visualization techniques, and other occultic contexts for this chapter (thanks, Sorina!)
• Knowing yourself and knowing love
• Final Question: Adapting Descent Into Hell

Here, by the way, is the Perelandra opera.

Thanks as always to Logan Huggins for producing!

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