Torture the Artist

Title: Torture the artist

Author: Joey Goebel

Genre: Fiction

Special Notes: A novel which will captivate those who oppose modern corporate entertainment

“I studied him while I was sipping from my whisky with water. I studied the trace of sadness in his gestures, his abject posture, his almost long black hair with a hint of grey, his sincere but darkened gaze, the paleness of his skin, his horrid eyes stuffed in his sockets with dark rings around them, his red lips, his weakling neck, his arms reduced to skeleton, his scarred wrists and finally his shaking bone like fingers which were circling the glass. For the first time I was seeing him as a work of art.”

To be a great artist usually means to go through a great deal of suffering. Misery, dark hours, lost loves, unrequited feelings, all of this keep feeding the fire of creativity; they are the tools of a complex mind in search of constant new ideas.

Harlan Eiffler- professional torturer- his job is to constantly make sure that the artist never reaches the ultimate gift of happiness. He kills pets, burns down childhood houses, pays off girlfriends to disappear and at the end of the day grows on you as a man of great integrity, with hatred towards modern day media icons, great moral and with a rather surprising kind nature.

Vincent Spinetti- the artist- a bright, yet damned boy who will be submitted to a slow and constant psychological tortured for the rest of his life in the name of art and at the mere mercy of a human contract. The author follows Vincent’s life from early age capturing all his changes and all the struggling that slowly turned him into a true artist.

Together, the torturer and the artist help create a fast paced story in which nothing is what it seems and everything is a few steps ahead of what you can possible imagine.

Goebel brings together two destinies, molds them as one and places them on the controversial background of modern corporate entertainment while making them struggle for real art, integrity, real values and even their lives…