Introduction

Michael silverblat meets one of his favourite writers, aunt mary gatesgill. She has made a very special book called the devil's treasure. It contains sections of three of her earlier novels. A connecting story runs through the novels. Each page has a colored margin, which gives us a cu as to where the material is from. The book seems to be an attempt to account, autobiographically, intellectually, for the state of aesthetics of the books of mary gateskill.