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"It is a cruel bookand if any novellas in literature have earned the title cruel,this book offourteen tales of Lahola certainly has. Yet they are only more than cruel in the Villierse sense of the word. If I were to compare them to something I would choose to fourteen circles of "modern hell- and I wouldn't do it out of mere wilfulness because the word hell appears a number of times and it isn't by chance that the author called one of his last dramas Inferno /Hell. And what sort of hell is it? Definitely not Dante's hell. In this hellish universe there are no ghostlygothic devils, symmetrical circles; there are nosinners. On the contrary, Lahola's hell differs from the hellthat we have encountered in ancient religious images. It is a place whereall of us are guilty. And yet Lahola's hell is close to the Dantesque Inferno; not with its appearance but with its inner meaning. It truly is a place ruled by Evil, an Evil not ofa religious-metaphysical design but a design individualand uniquefor Earth."
Jozef Felix
