perfume Patrick Suskind
September 1st 2008 13:03
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
I just finished reading Perfume for the first time. It is an amazing novel. It is such an abstract tale and it is one of those books that you pick up and are immediately transported and you don't want to put it down.
Our main character Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is in no way admirable rather the exact opposite but he is so interesting and so different it is delicious to follow his story. It would be easy and cliche to think up a story of a murderer her murders by scent. But a murderer who murders to obtain the ultimate scent is a delightful twist.
The story takes a while to reach the final act which is much shorter than parts I & II. It seems to go quicker.
The characters who interact with Grenouille are done with when Grenouille moves on from them. Suskind shortly explains how the rest of their life will be. This is a clever way of getting past one section and on to the next phase of the story without leaving us wondering if this character will come up again in the tale or what ever happend to him or her.
Suskind has taken a hard thing (basing a story on scent our language is so limited when it comes to describing scent) and has turned it into a masterfully written page turner. A definite must read!
I just finished reading Perfume for the first time. It is an amazing novel. It is such an abstract tale and it is one of those books that you pick up and are immediately transported and you don't want to put it down.
Our main character Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is in no way admirable rather the exact opposite but he is so interesting and so different it is delicious to follow his story. It would be easy and cliche to think up a story of a murderer her murders by scent. But a murderer who murders to obtain the ultimate scent is a delightful twist.
The characters who interact with Grenouille are done with when Grenouille moves on from them. Suskind shortly explains how the rest of their life will be. This is a clever way of getting past one section and on to the next phase of the story without leaving us wondering if this character will come up again in the tale or what ever happend to him or her.
Suskind has taken a hard thing (basing a story on scent our language is so limited when it comes to describing scent) and has turned it into a masterfully written page turner. A definite must read!
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