The book review, which follows, focuses on the storey, taken from real life, of two totally different people:
A robust Old man, who is mentally fit and full of life, and a young girl from Kosovo. In the book, the reader is immediately confronted with how far an old man indulges in his erotic desires and demands, and if really the young girl, with all her emotions, should submit to such a man’s immediate desires. But it is not just this exceptional situation, which is under discussion. In his diary, the old man describes his turbulent encounters, in the extreme case that does not fit into our picture of western moral, and the prejudices and conventional thinking encountered in our society. Those who do not fully conform, because of prejudices and conservative attitudes in our society, and who raise even a small suspicion of acting in a different way, are categorised under the term ”perversion”, as defined by Freud. Whither these are a constellation of opposites, like Sadism-Masochism, Voyeurism-Exhibitionism, Geriatrics-Paedophile, or other abnormal (“abnormal” because they are statistical average) like, homosexuals and bisexuals, incestuasness tendencies sodomy and many more from the world of erotic fantasy.
Such prejudices, however, which are the result of old fashioned western society, are no longer justified. The author, moreover, after many years of experience, of customs and prejudices in the Far east, states that with their greater tolerance and openness over eroticises and sexuality, they have saved themselves a great deal of health, psychological and legal problems, that the western world is suffering from. Social problems, however, when unemotionally scrutinised, are often on the borderline of creative power and intuition, just like life itself brings with all its ups and downs. It is enough when you look at the lives of well-known artists and prominent people, to recognise the dynamics of this power by seeing what they have achieved.
As a Doctor and author of the novel “Donna Bella and the Old Man” I would like, through my email address, ariel@aretino.de,
About the novel itself:
The novel relates the passionate love affair of a very young woman and an old man, their chance meeting and their turbulent life together. From the aspect of universal sensual enjoyment and engraved from human percept of the world, he observes with an ironical reflections, the incrusted structure of a paralysed society and he demands with his erotic ideas, his own wild life.
