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Mar. 14th, 2014 02:00 pmHey,
So I was recently gifted with The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. I finished it up so let's talk about it.
So The Passion is a fairly short book, under 200 pages and it's not so much about plot as it's a book about the main characters and their feelings. Stuff happens to them but that's not really the core of the story. It's about their digressions as they recount what's happened.
The book basically follows two characters. The first is Henri, a simple French lad who joined up with Napoleon's army and rose to position of head waiter to the Napoleon himself. The second is Villanelle, a beautiful young woman from Venice. The two of them meet on the eve of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and deciding that their odds staying with the army are pretty bad, the two of them set out for Venice on their own.
That trip from Russia to Italy is pretty well glossed over. The book focuses a great deal on what happened before they met in Moscow and then what happens to them back in Venice. Really though, it's about the inner thoughts and contrasts of two people. Henri is a country bumpkin from France with a simple, honest nature. Villanelle is from glittering, cosmopolitan Venice with a lot of secrets. They each touch upon the same subject form their unique viewpoints.
Overall, it's a pretty good book. Certainly the writing is very poetic and everything seems tinged with a fairy-tale flavor. Although not really beach reading, it seems like the kind of thing that'd be fun to read on a plane flight.
later
Tom
So I was recently gifted with The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. I finished it up so let's talk about it.
So The Passion is a fairly short book, under 200 pages and it's not so much about plot as it's a book about the main characters and their feelings. Stuff happens to them but that's not really the core of the story. It's about their digressions as they recount what's happened.
The book basically follows two characters. The first is Henri, a simple French lad who joined up with Napoleon's army and rose to position of head waiter to the Napoleon himself. The second is Villanelle, a beautiful young woman from Venice. The two of them meet on the eve of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and deciding that their odds staying with the army are pretty bad, the two of them set out for Venice on their own.
That trip from Russia to Italy is pretty well glossed over. The book focuses a great deal on what happened before they met in Moscow and then what happens to them back in Venice. Really though, it's about the inner thoughts and contrasts of two people. Henri is a country bumpkin from France with a simple, honest nature. Villanelle is from glittering, cosmopolitan Venice with a lot of secrets. They each touch upon the same subject form their unique viewpoints.
Overall, it's a pretty good book. Certainly the writing is very poetic and everything seems tinged with a fairy-tale flavor. Although not really beach reading, it seems like the kind of thing that'd be fun to read on a plane flight.
later
Tom
