Giro di Vite (1989)

Turn of the Screw Editor: Olympia Press publication date: 1989 cover price: Lire 25.000 (€ 12,91) Cover: Guido Crepax contains the following story: "Turn of the Screw" Based on the novel by Henry James pencil: Guido Crepax story: Guido Crepax It tells of the strange experience of an educator in Bly, the luxurious residence of the brothers Miles and Flora Timeline. Crepax moves the setting to the 1920s. The two children seem extremely polite, even too much. This does not correspond to what is reported in the letter sent to the educator, which explains how Miles was thrown out of boarding school as a danger to his classmates. With them there is also the housekeeper, Miss Grose, an apparently serious woman who knows all the secrets of the house. The woman discovers that the waiter, Peter Quint, as well as the previous governess, died before her arrival. The young woman begins to see a man walking around the house, the ghost of Peter Quint, who sees in her the other governess, Miss Jessel. The Governess also begins to see Miss Jessel's ghost and is convinced that the two children can see them too. She confesses everything to Miss Grose, but does not seem to believe her, but reveals to her that the two were lovers and had a strange influence on children. She begins to see the two lovers while talking to the children, while they make love. The children seem to ignore them, but she isn't sure. When she is alone in the room she begins to fantasize about ghosts, who visit and seduce her. She later receives the first visit from Miss Jessel alone, with whom she makes love. The next night it is Peter Quint's turn, but everything is confused: the man has no weight, but still she can feel him inside her. Reality becomes more and more absurd and the woman's fantasies prevail. Miss Grose leaves the villa with Flora, to save her from the influence of ghosts. The governess opposes their influence, chasing them away, but Miles dies. I admit that I have not read the novel that inspired this work, but it is clear that the governess, whose name is never revealed, has an intimate relationship with the two children (or with Miss Grose), seeing them as ghosts. A perverse and sick situation, but it does not clarify who is really crazy and who the victim. Correlati