Satan opens a doctor's office and promises his clients every kind of shake-up and excitement. It would seem: what is good? However, curiosity does its job, and the stupid fish one after another bites on the poisoned bait ...
Or another twist. On the glorious island of Corsica, strange things are happening, from which the resinous hair of men turns gray, and the body is filled with senile lead. After a two-week vacation in Corsica, a carefree, cheerful girl returns as a wrinkled hunched hag ...
However, the nightmares do not end there, but only smoothly flow to other, more famous personalities. ⠀
Bertrand Russell's clear, penetrating mind penetrates into the depths of the subconscious of Stalin, the Queen of Sheba and even Shakespeare's Othello, trying to imagine what visions tormented them at night ...
I will definitely reread this book in the future. Easy reading. Ironically, with notes of philosophical overtones, which, by the way, the author asked not to look for. ⠀
It all comes down to the fact that foolish actions are imposed by our inner Satan. ⠀
The first part of the collection "Satan in the Suburbs" was closer to me.
Bertram Russell is a philosopher and mathematician. I have not read his work, but I liked these fiction stories.