Patrick Suskind – is a German writer and screenwriter, born 1949. Author of “Perfume”, “Pigeon”, “Double Bass”(play).
Spectacular book “Perfume” demonstrate a brilliant, and at the same time horrible man. Jan Baptiste Grenouille has the absolute smell. He recognizes surrounding with fragrance better than different people with their eyes. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is a bit of a Marquis de Sade, a bit of Lecter Hannibal, and in a dark way -Prometheus. Instead of the fire, he wants to give “the ideal” to the mankind, which world is lacking- the perfect smell. Suskind chose this sense , because the scent is able to describe us. Even more than the appearance, much more than a sound. The smell has the power of opening or closing the space, the smell (or odour) is permeating. Shapes, colours, sizes are unimportant. The individuality of the man or the object depends on an aroma given off by them. The author in excellent way is playing with words, expressing something what theoretically is difficult to express.
The language and the style of this novel let the reader not only empathize the atmosphere of 18th century life in Paris, but let you feel its colors and tastes, but first of all fragrances. Behind traditional criminal and directly drawn image – we can see classical Dionysian myth, appealing back to the thought of Nietzsche, distantly related to the writing by Albert Camus, or Gunter Grass. Excellent.
Spectacular book “Perfume” demonstrate a brilliant, and at the same time horrible man. Jan Baptiste Grenouille has the absolute smell. He recognizes surrounding with fragrance better than different people with their eyes. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is a bit of a Marquis de Sade, a bit of Lecter Hannibal, and in a dark way -Prometheus. Instead of the fire, he wants to give “the ideal” to the mankind, which world is lacking- the perfect smell. Suskind chose this sense , because the scent is able to describe us. Even more than the appearance, much more than a sound. The smell has the power of opening or closing the space, the smell (or odour) is permeating. Shapes, colours, sizes are unimportant. The individuality of the man or the object depends on an aroma given off by them. The author in excellent way is playing with words, expressing something what theoretically is difficult to express.
The language and the style of this novel let the reader not only empathize the atmosphere of 18th century life in Paris, but let you feel its colors and tastes, but first of all fragrances. Behind traditional criminal and directly drawn image – we can see classical Dionysian myth, appealing back to the thought of Nietzsche, distantly related to the writing by Albert Camus, or Gunter Grass. Excellent.
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