![]() ![]() Her undercover escapades find her becoming obsessed with an older woman - known as the Queen of Spades - who frequents the casino and whom she watches from behind her different identities, eventually starting a brief affair despite the older woman being married. Villanelle herself is a bisexual androgynous young woman from Venice who works at a casino, but is the child of a boatman, with both identities causing her to perform various masquerades, sometimes literally. ![]() He murders a mutual enemy of theirs and develops serious mental illness. As scrawny and sarcastic, he is made Napoleon's personal kitchen boy, eventually becoming disillusioned with his hero in favour of an obsession with Villanelle, a dangerous seductress spanning Europe. ![]() He was raised in the church, but only physically, as his priest's lessons were barely religious except in how it applied to life and love. Henri is a young soldier from rural France who enlists to Napoléon's army thanks to an obsession with the war hero from folk stories and patriotism. ![]() The Passion is a 1987 novel by Jeanette Winterson ( Written On The Body, Sexing the Cherry) told from the perspectives of deuteragonists Henri and Villanelle, dealing with obsession as passion. ![]()
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