A tragicomic tale of the wondrous adventures of two medieval Sitnian knights who venture into the twentieth century with the intent to banish the devil and set the world to rights.
An old woman dreams her last dream in the house where she has lived all her life, but now she has to leave it. Divided into five separate, internally coherent parts, the story recapitulates her life while remaining a universal final recapitulation of each individual's life. Its wit is primarily...