About The Confession
The Confession is the story of a convicted serial killer told in the first person. He explains his life during the evening before his execution.
The dominant theme of the novel is the narrator’s inner conflict with reality: whether or not he is telling the truth about his crimes, or if he has committed any crimes at all. His final admission is that he has killed no one, and that his purpose all along has been to somehow redeem his inner torment by sacrificing himself. Pornography and its world of sexual fantasy play an important role in the story because the narrator’s imagination is deeply affected by his obsession with pornographic material as well as the illusive or synthetic quality of all imagery. Comments from detectives, psychiatrists, coroners, media, and victims’ families are inserted between chapters in preface fashion, giving an objective or “reportage style” version of events in contrast to the narrator’s visionary, more poetic account.
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Author Bio:
Born 1956 New York City. Went to Nazareth High School and New York University. Graduated 1978: BA Cinema Studies; BFA Film Production. Poetry, prose-poems, fiction, short plays, art work, and critical essays published in over 80 literary magazines, journals, and anthologies. Poetry collections “A Box Of Crazy Toys” published 2018 by Xenos Books/Chelsea Editions; “Bloodstream Is An Illusion Of Rubies Counting Fireplaces” published February 2023 and “Roller Coasters Made Of Dream Space” published November 2023 by Cyberwit/Rochak Publishing. Chapters from his critical study of Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock’s Cinematic World: Shocks of Perception and the Collapse of the Rational) published in The Midwest Quarterly Literature/Film Quarterly, Kinema, Flickhead, and North Dakota Quarterly since 2006. Dramatika Press published a volume of his one-act plays in 1983. From this collection, The Seeker appeared in an issue of Collages & Bricolages and Stopping On One’s Way was recently published in Synchronized Chaos Journal. Contributing editor for NYArts Magazine, writing art and film reviews; also wrote monographs on several new artists. Co-Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Artscape2000, a prestigious, award-winning, art e-zine. Taught poetry and art for LEAP. He is an artist himself: https://www.saatchiart.com/peterdellolio.com. His paintings and 3D works offer abstract images of famous people in all walks of life who have died tragically at a young age. He lives in Brooklyn.
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