SOURCE: Trippett, Anthony M. “Eman hetan.” In Adjusting to Reality: Philosophical and Psychological Ideas in the Post-Civil War Novels of Ramón J. Sender, pp. 43-7. London, United Kingdom: Tamesis, 1986.

In the following essay, Trippett discusses the importance of the theme of Satanism in one of Sender's novels, the implied criticism of the Catholic Church, and the ways in which Eman hetan forms the basis for Las criaturas.

There has been some progress in criticism¹ of Emen hetan, but no-one has yet done justice to its irony and no attempt has been made to relate the psychology of the characters to the action. I would suggest that there is an important link between Satanism, as seen in this book, and the characters who attend the Satanic ceremony the book describes. The linking of the ideas and the psychology² of a character is important in Sender, and together with...