Juicio a Satán

Father Gregory Sargent, after drunkenly administering extreme unction, is transferred to the small parish of San Miguel. Accustomed to the brilliant social and intellectual life of San Francisco, he receives his new destiny as punishment. As soon as he arrives, however, he will have to face a case that psychiatry would diagnose as sexual hysteria: Susan Garth, a "charming, formal and educated" sixteen-year-old girl with a sudden aversion to church, has begun to speak obscenities. , and one day he undressed in front of the former priest and tried to strangle him; In addition, the contact of a crucifix on his arm burns his skin. Trial of Satan is a pioneering novel about exorcism where the fight between faith and reason is fought between dark guilt, vomiting and thundering storms.