15 Serial Killers Docufictions [Paperback]

Taking as his text Georges Batailles insight that only at the extremes is there freedom, critically acclaimed guerrilla writer Harold Jaffe documents Batailles aper?u with 15 bone-chilling illustrations. Manson, Starkweather, Speck, Son of Sam, the Night Stalker, Aileen Wuornos, the Unabomber, Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Kemper, Kevorkian and Kissinger are not merely present and accounted for, they are rendered into a reality TV that youve never seen before.

Widely praised as a virtuoso stylist, Jaffe employs a number of narrative stratagems, such as letters, monologues, interviews and unsituated dialogues to torque the flattened, cartoon-like serial killers into a potently unnerving third dimension.

As in False Positive, Straight Razor, Eros Anti-Eros and Sex for the Millennium, Jaffes docufictions are at the same time lucid, intricate, gruesome, infinitely sad, and hilarious. At the end we are left with a profoundly incisive commentary on Americas insatiable consumption of extremity, conveniently masked as moral condemnation.

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