Another book of Narnia???!!!

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Aravis_yanes

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Ok. I'd read in other forum page of Narnia that it was another book of narnia title "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Return of Susan", it has been said that it was a book that C.S. Lewis was writting when he died so the book got unfinished, I've search a lot in the internet but had founded nothing.

If anyone knows something about it please let me know, that this got me really intrgated.
 
I strongly doubt that's accurate. There was only one book of Lewis' works that was published posthumously, called The Dark Tower and Other Stories. They were published by Lewis' late-in-life secretary Walter Hooper, who claimed to have discovered them among Lewis' papers after his death. There was some controversy of them - certain scholars claimed that they didn't seem like Lewis' style and maybe had been plagiarized. Later facts emerged substantiating the claim that they were if fact Lewis' work. If there had been any Narnia work among the papers, even an unfinished one, you can be sure we would have heard about it decades ago.
 
Ok, this is what I do know.

I know a guy named "Gaiman" wrote a short called "The Problem of Susan," which deals with grief surrounding a train crash that killed the main character's family. She refers to one of her brothers as "Ed," so I'm guessing Gaiman was referring to the Susan we all know, only older, since it deals with things like sex.

I also remember reading a bio somewhere about Lewis writing something called "After Ten Years." This ended with five chapters from an unfinished novel he wrote. I have no idea if the unfinished novel had anything to do with Narnia or anything included in it related to Narnia, but it's a possibility. :)
 
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I'm channeling his latest book about Narnia with mystic crystal revelations. It's really exciting. It's a love story about talking badgers. The title? "Cute as Buttons" :D
 
mmm... interesting... I'm still searching but still founded nothing...

What I know is that the book is told in the perpectivo of Susan, Susan finds out about the accident of the train by the radio, and she goes to live with her Uncle Harold and Aunt Alberta, and in a dream that she had Aslan talked to her, but Susan was uncapable to untherstand what he was saying, when she woke up she remembered everything about narnia, meanwhile all her friends in Narnia asked Aslan to bring Susan back to narnia, but he told them that Susan should find the way back by herself, time later some moles find a little forrest of coats go inside and founded a door that lead them to a wardrope a little damage, So the other 3 Pevensies planed to go to that part of the forrest because they remember that the wardrope was the pass to go to the Profesor's house and from there they could come back to our world, in that way the Pevensies and a small army of dwarfs, minotaurs, centaurs etc, came into our world in search of queen Susan.

The person who wrote this on the forum of course is not sure if the information is true or not, and when Lewis got to the last part I told u about he died.

I really don't know if I could believe or not, but I'll will search more until I found something.
 
Hmm - sounds like a fanfic gone mad, and one written by one who didn't know the Chronicles. Well before the time of the accident, Professor Kirke had lost the Great House that was the starting point for Lion. What had happened to the Wardrobe is not made clear. What is clear is that Narnians would not have been able to go back through the Wardrobe unless Aslan permitted it - which He didn't. Even Caspian was only allowed a few minutes in our World (at the end of Silver Chair), and that after he'd died in Narnia.
 
yeah I know.. though it still got me thinking, and Aslan wouldn't let that dwarfs, minotaurs, and centaurs came to our world it will be a great disaster if they will, and Peter, Edmund and Lucy where supossed to be dead, it will be weird see them walk in the streets wearing weird cloth and going with swords and arrows in the middle of england... lol
 
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I also remember reading a bio somewhere about Lewis writing something called "After Ten Years." This ended with five chapters from an unfinished novel he wrote. I have no idea if the unfinished novel had anything to do with Narnia or anything included in it related to Narnia, but it's a possibility. :)
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Actually, I read that one. It had nothing to do with Narnia. It was about the story of Menelaus and Helen's return to Sparta following the end of the Trojan War.
 
I think we all have imagined writing more Narnia books. Most dealing with Susan. Even I once started writing one, but only got through the opening chapter. Lewis does allow for more books, because Susan is still alive, and you can always add new charaters like he did with Pole and Eustace. And the "rings" are still there or Aslan could call her by himself. But let's face it, Narnia is not there. So what are we to do. :(
 
Is really a total shame that we knew nothing about Susan, I hope someday someone (a really good writter) could write a book about Susan, but of course it will never be the same.
 
Sounds to me like it's conflating a couple of things. There was a fragment of another Narnia book (a proto-MN, essentially), which Lewis never completed or published. (I think it's called the Lefay fragment? I've read it; it's really strange. Diggory talks to animals and Mrs. Lefay is his godmother.)

There's also, as Truman said, "The Problem of Susan" by Neil Gaiman, which is Susan afterward. It's quite interesting, really--it's partially about the character and partially about the world of Narnia, and partially meta on how Lewis chose to end the series. I think it's in Smoke and Mirrors, if anyone's curious.

It sounds to me like this is conflating the two of them (so an unpublished Susan story), but grafting it onto someone's fic.

(Since we're on the subject--what are everyone's favorite "problem of Susan" fics/essays/comments/drawings/vids?)
 
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