"Laurence A. Rickels’s punning, associative, and extravagant style
serves not only to refresh material worked over by critics for a
century but also pulls the reader along in a way we’d expect more
from summer beach reading than from literary criticism. This
shouldn’t be surprising, however, since with its narrative of
desire, projection, and denial The Devil Notebooks is every bit a
romance." —Daniel Punday, author of Narrative Bodies
"The Devil Notebooks establishes the astonishing extent to which
contemporary pop culture has been deeply preoccupied with demons,
succubi, possession, aliens, sexuality of all kinds, and the end of
the world. The Devil, then, offers up a counter-history of
humankind—a history from below as it were—that Rickels deploys with
verve in a truly fascinating and important study of how and why the
world as we know it has gone to Hell." —Michael Dorland, Carleton
University
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