JUNG’S DEMON, A serial-killer’s tale of love and madness

Trygve E. Wighdal

Aug 2019 · A. Wigdal & Sons, LLC

About this ebook

How to put a method, a structure in madness?

”Since I’d be first to cast a stone at a murderer—I am one after all—I venture on writing these truthful chronicles as a study of human suffering,” writes a serial-killer, in a story of self-discovery gone amok. JUNG’S DEMON is a book as hallucinogenic as Hunter S. Thompson and as powerful as Oscar Zeta Acosta. It is as tragic as Malcolm Lowry and occasionally as funny as David Foster Wallace.

"The murders Roman L. had committed with such a ferocious, savage intensity send shivers down my spine every time I reflect on his brutally honest confessions. He writes about “sinking into the terrifying Hell of my own soul, a cold, utter darkness of the scariest, most painful insanity that peels off your skin while your brain screams, crushed by madness.”

Even now as I copy his words here, I shake as I furtively look around. And I am afraid. I dread, no matter how irrationally, that I somehow might meet him or one of his scary personalities anew, and, like I was once before in Paris, again be tricked into liking him by his disarming, almost child-like smile and by his mirthful laughter that hid both the frightened child in him and the terrifying, heartless monster sneering behind. This book contains his chronicles. His harrowing descent into Hell.”

Think Kafka on acid and sprinkle some humor over it; that's JUNG'S DEMON.

“What if I should discover that I myself am the enemy who must be loved? What then?” Carl Gustav Jung

Ratings and reviews

FROM A READER's REVIEW on AMAZON: “Jung’s Demon” was the most enjoyable novel I’ve read in years, since I’d read Bulgakov’s “Master and Margarita.” In his fascinating novel, Trygve Wighdal takes the reader on an absorbing voyage through space and time, as the author’s extraordinary grasp of human psychology colors the story plot. The shifting geographies of the book’s protagonist, Roman L., range from war-torn Balkans through Venice, Tijuana, Rio, Las Vegas, Tahiti, Lebanon, Tuscany, Sicily, Kenya, Norway and other places, from author’s childhood through to his final moments. The beautiful intensity of Wighdal’s prose will make you want to visit and witness all these places, eat the foods and drink the wines so vividly described through the novel. But the dark side of his manic voyages reflects his desperate quest for meaning, for wisdom, beauty, love, for peace and for his ‘moment of bliss,’ all of which continue to elude him, more or less over a whole lifetime. Then an emotional avalanche, triggered by a destructive, manipulative pseudo-love from a woman who was herself a profoundly lost soul, RL’s quest inexorably devolves to all its opposites: confusion, anxiety, loss of meaning and hatred. Ultimately, his penchant for self-destructive action finds expression in real, external destruction. Wighdal’s novel was written with extraordinary intelligence and a striking depth of understanding of human psychology. The prose is at times hauntingly beautiful but at times outright profane. The whole is akin to a sculpture which is in places so sublimely crafted, it leaves no doubt as to the author’s inner qualities and abilities as a writer, but in places he leaves the surface coarse, even deliberately blemished, just to make his point. In contrast with the serious overall tone of the book, the author elegantly weaves a measure of humor which at time had me in stitches. I can’t resist quoting one such example: “It’s small wonder the verb ‘smite’ means ‘to inflict a heavy blow,’ the Lord’s favourite approach to humans, as well as ‘to enamour.’ So after you got smitten by the beauty and charms of your loved one, the good Lord enters into the picture and he smites you as well.” In all, “Jung’s Demon” is a brilliant, enjoyable, thought-provoking and entertaining novel that defies conventions and ordinary expectations. You simply have to read this book.

About the author

Trygve E. Wighdal is a Norwegian ordained priest living in Paris where he met the author of these demoniacal chronicles he edited and you now hold in your hands. Some claim Trygve E. Wighdal is Lorenzo Bladuzzi's pseudonymous, a Palermo based writer whose novel Desiderio Robotica has been lost since 2004. Some others wait for his new novel he currently writes in Toscana, Italy.