In these nine stories the Polish writer Aleksander Wat consistently
turns history on its ear in comic reversals reverberating with
futurist rhythms and the gently mocking humor of despair. Wat
inverts the conventions of religion, politics, and culture to
fantastic effect, illuminating the anarchic conditions of existence
in interwar Europe. The title story finds a superbly ironic Lucifer
wandering the Europe of the late 1920s in search of a mission: what
impact can a devil have in a godless time? What is his sorcery in a
society far more diablical than the devil himself? Too idealistic
for a world full of modern cruelties, the unemployable Lucifer
finally finds the only means of guaranteed immortality. In "The
Eternally Wandering Jew," steady Jewish conversion to Christianity
results in Nathan the Talmudist reigning as Pope Urban IX. The
hilarious satire on power, "Kings in Exile," unfolds with the
dethroned monarchs of Europe meeting to found their own republic in
an uninhabited island in the Indian Ocean.
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