Geografia przyszłości ostatecznej w „Ostatniej bitwie” Clive Staple Lewisa i „Nad Rzeką i Tam Dalej” Wiliamia Horwooda
THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE ULTIMATE FUTURE IN “THE LAST BATTLE” BY CLIVE STAPLES LEWIS AND “THE WILLOWS AND BEYOND” BY WILLIAM HORWOOD

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses the realization the topoi of death and life beyond by focusing on the border of thanatology and sacrum in children’s and YA literature expressed as the function of time – the Ultimate Future. These considerations are exemplified with The Chronicles of Narnia by Clive Staples Lewis (with a special reference to The Last Battle) and The Willows and Beyond by William Horwood, which is the sequel to The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. The analysis of the passage to “the better world” centers on representations of place. The comparative analysis of Horwood’s “Beyond” and Lewis’s “Further up and further in” enables describing the Ultimate Future in the categories of domestication. Moreover, it reveals the philosophical roots of the presented images. The analogies between Lewis’s and Horwood’s texts constitute a coherent implementation of the Ultimate Place topoi, which could be analyzed with the use of geopoetics. The aim of this study is to show the unique mission that is or could be undertaken by children’s and YA literature with reference to existential issues, and especially eschatological ones.

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