The Passion by Jeanette Winterson5/11/2023 ![]() What was the attraction? As Henri writes, Napoleon “…was in love with himself and France joined in. His village priest was an admirer of the man, and young Frenchmen enlisted by the thousands. His personal love of and devotion to Napoleon is not unusual. He ends up a kitchen boy and personal waiter to Napoleon, which leaves him practically breathless with joy and pride. Henri is a teen, freshly recruited for Napoleon’s army and eager to go. ![]() The novel begins in 1804 in a French army camp in Boulogne. Some can find their way back from it, others cannot. Using her characters, history, and geography, Winterson examines how passion develops among “lukewarm people” and how it can bleed over into debilitating obsession and the loss of self. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion is a novel about passions, obsessions, and madness. Somewhere between God and the Devil passion is and the way there is sudden and the way back is worse. Somewhere between the swamp and the mountains. ![]()
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