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

Screwtape narrates C.S. Lewis’s 1942 novel The Screwtape Letters through a series of letters.

Screwtape is an experienced demon who writes advice to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter assigned to influence a human being known only as the Patient. The letters reverse ordinary moral language by presenting temptation from the demons’ bureaucratic perspective.

Lewis used this fictional framework to examine habits, distraction, pride, resentment, and spiritual self-deception. The book first appeared in Britain in 1942 and became one of Lewis’s most widely read works of Christian satire.

Screwtape is the correspondent and central voice, while Wormwood is the recipient. The Patient is the human target of the demonic campaign, so those names should not be confused when identifying who narrates the book.