Deviled Egos (Devil Take Him, by Ralph de Toledano)

DEVILED EGOS

Life, according to W. S. Gilbert, is perhaps the only riddle that we shrink from giving up. Ralph de Toledano, one of the most versatile and accomplished modern conservative men of letters, has wrestled with this particular riddle in essays, poems, fiction, and non-fiction for more than a generation. In his new novel, Devil Take Him, we learn a lot about his conclusions—or at least his suspicions, for, aside from the certainty that good, evil, and “something out there” all exist, neither Ralph de Toledano nor anyone else is in a position to give us a detailed diagram of the infinite.

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Aram Bakshian Jr.

DEVILED EGOS

Life, according to W. S. Gilbert, is perhaps the only riddle that we shrink from giving up. Ralph de Toledano, one of the most versatile and accomplished modern conservative men of letters, has wrestled with this particular riddle in essays, poems, fiction, and non-fiction for more than a generation. In his new novel, Devil Take Him, we learn a lot about his conclusions—or at least his suspicions, for, aside from the certainty that good, evil, and “something out there” all exist, neither Ralph de Toledano nor anyone else is in a position to give us a detailed diagram of the infinite.