Misplaced Time

When I think of other works the Telemundo telenovela PASIÓN PROHIBIDA reminds me of, I find myself invariably drawn to works of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, either created then: novels and stories by Edith Wharton, Maupassant, Henry James; or set there: works of Stefan Zweig, James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s musical PASSION, Truffaut’s THE STORY OF ADELE H.  I’m a little worried my foreknowledge that the original Turkish source material for the telenovela is a novel published in 1900 and that has bent my impressions, but I maintain PASIÓN PROHIBIDA is a story out of its proper time.  That’s not a negative criticism as I love the fin de siècle, but it does mean allowances have to be made to explain the characters and plot.