Turning: or Malicious Joy: On Fascism and Sadomasochism

By Arione De Winter

Book II - TURNING: OR MALICIOUS JOY

An art historian, born in Bergen-Belsen, re-enacts her mother's torture, a prostitute in the death camp, who was murdered by her Nazi father. Her psychopathic brother, an art forger and thief, tracks her down from her book on the painting Isle of the Dead. He hires her to find the variation owned by Hitler, and seduces and murders the gay gallerist who hoards it. Spellbound by the shadow of their father, he repeats his sadistic acts, and projects the tortures of her mother on his masochistic sister.

Obsessed with the novel Shadow Woman and its author, she creates a mythical analysis, in which she eroticizes death and her psychopathic brother. To victimize and control her, he kills her lesbian lovers, and learning from the Shadow Woman how to kill with a thought, she avenges their deaths by driving him mad. In time, the author becomes her analyst, guiding her back to the Isle of the Dead, turning her addiction to death into a longing for life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BM3Y5S8C
• ISBN13: 9798363276569
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"