![]() ![]() To make his dream come true, Henry joins the army of Napoleon – a bright, inspired and inspiring, obsessed emperor, and Napoleon becomes Henri’s passion: the boy adores and idolizes him. One of the protagonists is a 16-year-old French country lad, Henri, who dreams about flames, passion, unsettling and upsetting emotions, and isn’t content with the mild, meek and lukewarm behavior usually characteristic of his countrymen. My desire to re-read The Passion arose when I was somehow reminded of these two recurring, beautifully ambiguous sentences from the novel: „I’m telling you stories. ![]() My desire to re-read something usually comes when one of my favorites is mentioned in passing, or when I suddenly remember a couple of lines or an episode from a novel and I feel that I must read it again, immediately. I guess I already mentioned this quite a few times, but I love to re-read books. ![]()
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