In a future where technology has redefined intimacy, emotions, and power, some women navigate between forbidden passions and unmentionable desires.Isabelle believed she had a perfect marriage. Until she discovers that her husband's mistress is nothing more than a female android with devastating sensuality. What begins as an erotic game turns into an abyss where she gradually loses control.Sybil belongs to a coven of witches and possesses a revolutionary neurovisual interface ...

Where Desire Does Not LiberateA Dark Reversal of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Lesbian PanicBetween the implacable shadows of the rooms of a castle in the Upper Canavese—transformed into chambers of consciousness—and a 1950s Turin of smoke and stone, where everyone lives a double life, unfolds the story of Giulia, a fallen countess armed with a fascination that captivates and obsesses.Torn between gambling and a fragile husband,...

Modernist narrative has long been described either as the triumph of interiority or as the crisis of the subject. Perceptual Misalignment proposes a different account.Introducing the concept of perceptual misalignment, this study argues that modernist fiction does not simply deepen consciousness nor dissolve it, but exposes its structural insufficiency in relation to the perceptual field the text constructs. What emerges in Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Beckett is a recurrent...

At Velvet Mexico, a publishing house specializing in lesbian erotica, writers must prove that they live what they write about, under the watchful eye of the sophisticated editor, Claudia, and her two partners, Gabrielle and Sybil, who impose unique and relentless rules.When Elena—a passionate fan, bank employee, and lover of her boss Luca—agrees to cross the threshold of their exclusive club, she immediately understands that there, "personal attention" comes before ...

A sapphic Gothic novel of gambling, blackmail, desire, and female power.In 1950s Turin, Giulia, Countess Pinotti, belongs to a world already in ruins: emptied noble titles, mortgaged estates, gambling debts, elegant parties, and marriages held together by money, shame, and appearances. Between Turin’s salons and a castle perched in the hills of the Canavese, her elegant life conceals a slow descent into blackmail, dependence, and the loss of herself.At the ...