5/29/2023 0 Comments Patrick süskind books![]() will remain unique in contemporary literature' Figaro 'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer. But the film, starring Dustin Hoffman, Alan. ![]() Born in 1949, he has a sparse bibliography of books and plays, and lives a reclusive life in Munich. A remarkable debut' Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review 'Unlike anything else one has read. Süskind is keeping far from the limelight. ![]() Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' Literary Review 'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay. 'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity. ![]() It is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today. ![]() He is also the author of The Pigeon and Mr. An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His first novel, Perfume became an internationally acclaimed bestseller. ![]()
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