Julius von Alensmeier
The protagonist of our story is a young lady (the
story starts when she's 15), obliged since her birth to dress and
to act like a male, in order to get her father's heritage. Unlike
Lady Oscar, Julius' nerves are extremely frail and she's not able
to live concealing her nature forever. Instead, this condition of
living as a permanent transgender provokes in Julius serious
derangements and outbursts of hysteria: sometimes she really
seems gone crazy. She is always suspicious of the people around
her and in the end she's an obstacle to her own happiness. Her
life is eventually a failure: compelled to commit crime, unable
to keep her lover, Klaus, with her, or to find solace in
another's arm, be he Isaac, Davidt or Yusupov, Julius has to
witness helplessly to her family's ruin and destruction, to the
death of all her beloved ones and finally to amnesia.
