Who narrates C.S. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters?

Screwtape narrates C.S. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters.

The work is presented as a series of letters from Screwtape, a senior demon, to his nephew Wormwood. Screwtape offers advice about tempting a human patient, allowing Lewis to discuss moral choices, pride, distraction, fear, and spiritual life through satire.

Lewis wrote the book during the Second World War, and it first appeared in serialized form in the Anglican newspaper The Guardian. The letters were later collected and published as a book in 1942. The unusual viewpoint makes the reader infer the author’s moral position from advice that is deliberately presented as demonic.

Wormwood is not the narrator; he is the inexperienced recipient of the letters. Aslan belongs to the Narnia books, while Ransom is the protagonist of Lewis’s space trilogy.