The slender story is sometimes lost in the strange brew of myth, fact and modernism, but British author Winterson's assured proseparticularly her stunning evocations of a glacial Russia and a decadent nighttime Venicedoes much to unify her unsettling tale. A magical, wonderful modern classic about the destinies of Napoleons faithful cook and the daughter of a Venetian boatman. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable.
While passion can be a good thing and add zest and meaning to life, when it verges on obsession. Passiondescribed by the manipulative Villanelle as ""somewhere between fear and sex''leads Henri on a desperate quest away from his beliefs and into an emotional labyrinth from which he may be unable to return. Jeanette Winterson ’s novel The Passion contains an important message about passion and obsession. Disillusioned and longing to escape a desolate posting in the Russian winter, the young man meets and falls in love with Villanelle, a mysterious Venetian hoping to retrieve her own heart, which has literally been stolen and imprisoned by a noblewoman she once loved. Keywords: Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, postmodern novel. The New York Timesbestselling author interweaves the destinies of Napoleons cook and.
Henri is a naive French soldier who works in Bonaparte's kitchen and worships the conqueror until his starving and diseased army begins to crumble. PDF Jeannette Wintersons novels can always be studied from a postmodern perspective. Read The Passion by Jeanette Winterson available from Rakuten Kobo. This arresting, elegant novel by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit uses Napoleon's Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy.
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