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Wolfgang: A Werewolf Erotic Horror Novel
Wolfgang Bergbauer is a German billionaire living in the fictional town of Klein, in Bavaria. He is also a werewolf. Racked with guilt over his killings, he gets the services of a young prostitute, Renate Reinhold, whose BDSM-style torturing of him will, he hopes, assuage his guilt. Their relationship, however, grows far beyond the professional one he'd intended.
Spirits that control the wolf also possess and manipulate him, for the werewolf killings serve their agenda. His butler, Marko, also has an agenda, and enjoys watching him make love with the exhibitionistic Renate. When he develops his own sexual relationship with her, a complicated love triangle ensues, leading the butler to piece together his eccentric employer's dark secret.
Meanwhile, the spirits quickly realize that Wolfgang isn't killing as many people as they wish him to, and they have to consider a new host to carry the werewolf totem. Will the next one be Marko, as they hope...or Renate, as she hopes?
Spirits that control the wolf also possess and manipulate him, for the werewolf killings serve their agenda. His butler, Marko, also has an agenda, and enjoys watching him make love with the exhibitionistic Renate. When he develops his own sexual relationship with her, a complicated love triangle ensues, leading the butler to piece together his eccentric employer's dark secret.
Meanwhile, the spirits quickly realize that Wolfgang isn't killing as many people as they wish him to, and they have to consider a new host to carry the werewolf totem. Will the next one be Marko, as they hope...or Renate, as she hopes?
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 3, 2016
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February 25, 2019
Stylistically, Wolfgang: A Werewolf Erotic Horror Novel would seem to belong to the transgressive literary tradition of Sade and Bataille. The scatological aspects of the book remind one of both authors, while the sexual didacticism and the cataloguing of perversions, which I often found highly comical, are particularly characteristic of Sade. Rightly or wrongly, I even detected Sadean echoes in the names of the three avenging spirits Sades, Chisad, and Chebirüsad.
Unlike the work of Sade and Bataille, however, that of Mawr Gorshin is ideologically infused with a sympathy for the wretched of the earth and an outraged sense of social justice. I was impressed by the manner in which Gorshin appropriated the European folkloric motif of the werewolf and placed it within the context of African liberation in order to condemn the slave trade and the capitalistic exploitation of labor.
At the same time, Wolfgang may be read as parody. The various allusions to the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale are playfully amusing, and the protagonist Wolfgang himself can be seen as a kind of Dracula-Christ with a lycanthropic twist. The doppelgänger motif is also relevant here: the character Renate, for example, is a parodic double of the character Etty (as well as Wolfgang’s mother and wife), just as the character Marko is a parodic double of Wolfgang’s father.
The Christological nature of the Wolfgang character is emphasized by the themes of crime/punishment, atonement, redemption, and absolution of guilt. These themes are juxtaposed with various Freudian elements: detailed descriptions of erotic dreams, ritualized reenactments of family traumas (with a particular emphasis on the Oedipal), and an implicit association of the superego with good cop/bad cop personae. This eclectic combination makes for a fascinating reading experience.
Overall, Wolfgang is a book of great subtlety and complexity. I highly recommend it to readers with the fortitude necessary for a foray into the realm of the transgressive.
Unlike the work of Sade and Bataille, however, that of Mawr Gorshin is ideologically infused with a sympathy for the wretched of the earth and an outraged sense of social justice. I was impressed by the manner in which Gorshin appropriated the European folkloric motif of the werewolf and placed it within the context of African liberation in order to condemn the slave trade and the capitalistic exploitation of labor.
At the same time, Wolfgang may be read as parody. The various allusions to the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale are playfully amusing, and the protagonist Wolfgang himself can be seen as a kind of Dracula-Christ with a lycanthropic twist. The doppelgänger motif is also relevant here: the character Renate, for example, is a parodic double of the character Etty (as well as Wolfgang’s mother and wife), just as the character Marko is a parodic double of Wolfgang’s father.
The Christological nature of the Wolfgang character is emphasized by the themes of crime/punishment, atonement, redemption, and absolution of guilt. These themes are juxtaposed with various Freudian elements: detailed descriptions of erotic dreams, ritualized reenactments of family traumas (with a particular emphasis on the Oedipal), and an implicit association of the superego with good cop/bad cop personae. This eclectic combination makes for a fascinating reading experience.
Overall, Wolfgang is a book of great subtlety and complexity. I highly recommend it to readers with the fortitude necessary for a foray into the realm of the transgressive.
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