TECHNICAL NOTE: The quality of the author's audio is poor for the first twelve minutes. Improves at the twenty minute mark.
I Ate His Heart is a true crime confessional like no other--a darkly philosophical interrogation into the meaning of love, desire, and annihilation.
Nathalie von Zelowitz's work explores the internal logic of the crime from the perpetrator’s perspective.
Using firsthand interviews, she presents a detailed account of the psychological, philosophical, and emotional framework that led Bernard to violate humanity's most extreme taboo. She neither sensationalizes nor excuses. Instead, she allows the subject’s words and justifications to speak for themselves, offering readers a rare view into a case that defied common explanations of psychosis or insanity.
Originally published in France to critical acclaim, I Ate His Heart is now available in English--a chilling, cerebral, and elegantly disturbing book that questions our understanding of evil, the unthinkable, and humanity.
Includes a short forward by cultural historian Jack Sargeant.
Driven by her passion for cinema and crime novels, Nathalie von Zelowitz began studying psychology in the late 1980s, intrigued by topics that were considered marginal at the time: serial killers, sex offenders, sexual perversion, and more.
Still in active practice, she has spent decades researching and working with sex offenders, in a prison that holds France’s most extreme and disturbed inmates, where she participated in pioneering psychological research concerning sexual criminals.
