![]() He writes: “With the skeleton of the plot squared away I was free to write about queer alienation, the provisional whiteness of Jews in America, the lonely arrogance of clever young adults” (Nemerver 461). Though the book is inspired by Leopold and Loeb, the actual plot and characters are entirely invented by Nemerever. I was queer, Jewish, isolated, and both too smart for my own good and nowhere near the visionary genius I thought I was–and for a time this let me imagine that my own misanthrophy could spiral out of control in the same way.” (Nemerver 461). He writes: “I recognized enough basic similarities that I could see them as what I feared becoming. As he writes in his “Author’s Note”, he was fascinated with the Leopold and Loeb case ever since he learned about it as a teen. ![]() ![]() Nemerever was inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case, in which two wealthy students from the University of Chicago kidnapped and murdered a fourteen year old as a demonstration of their intellectual superiority, which they believed allowed them to get away with the perfect crime. These Violent Delights is a deeply engrossing and disturbing novel about two young men who fall in love and decide to cement their love by committing murder. ![]()
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