A Here and Now Hell.

The article presents information on the book "A Change of Skin," by Carlos Fuentes. To medieval man, as to fundamentalist preachers, hell was real but remote, waiting in an afterlife that made the sinner fear to die. Mid-century man, freed of myth, brings hell to life. It is a hell of barbed wire and extermination ovens, napalm and corruption. Satan, in Fuentes' demonology, is power, wherever it is wielded, in Berlin, Washington, Moscow, or in the beds of sexual combat. Disenchantment is the food of hell's inhabitants, and romantic ideology the black mass.