The Wheel #37/38. In Wisdom He Has Made Them All?. Spring-Summer 2024

Fantasy Literature as a Mirror.

According to J. R. R. Tolkien, one of the main wishes of the human heart is to be able to converse with other living things: “On this desire, as ancient as the Fall, is largely founded the talking of beasts and creatures in fairy tales, and especially the magical understanding of their proper speech.” Indeed,[…..]

The Wheel #19. Of the Book. Fall 2019

Lost and Found

One of the key activities of the Russian Student Christian Movement in France is its summer camp for children, organized annually at La Servagère in the Vercors Mountains. This year’s camp was marked by an unexpected discovery. On one of the last days, a small piece of paper was found in an old gospel book[…..]

The Wheel #24. The music of creation. Winter 2021

The Music of Creation in Tolkien and Lewis

We will probably never know where Dante drew the line in his Divine Comedy between his own belief and fiction (in the modern sense of the word). It is quite possible that, for him, such a distinction would not have made any sense. In any case, we can be sure he was, at the same[…..]

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