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A review by laurenelliza
Satan's Diary by Leonid Andreyev, Herman Bernstein
5.0
I am a big fan of Andreyev's writing and I think he is criminally underrated when it comes to 19th century Russian authors. This is an epistolary account of the Devil coming to earth and inhabiting the body of Henry Wondergood, only to find that earth is a miserable replica of the "ancient, magnificent, and multicoloured Hell". This book contains existential themes of the necessity of suffering in human life, and human's constant knowledge of their own impending death.
"Men are always quarrelling about accounts, but how can they carry in their breasts this counting machine, registering with the speed of a magician the fleeting sounds of life?"
"Isn't is true that when one eye is directed upon the other world, it is hardly possible to maintain any particular bright flame in the eye directed upon this world"
"Men are always quarrelling about accounts, but how can they carry in their breasts this counting machine, registering with the speed of a magician the fleeting sounds of life?"
"Isn't is true that when one eye is directed upon the other world, it is hardly possible to maintain any particular bright flame in the eye directed upon this world"