![]() ![]() The setting allows Süskind to play with decadent description but uses this mostly for scents contrasting the often vulgar surroundings. Indeed he seems to live because society wishes him not to. ![]() He compares himself to the cockroach within society who without much food, comfort or love, still manages to thrive. ![]() Born into squalor, Grenouille only survives infancy by sheer determination. The story focuses on Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a perfume apprentice in 18th-century France who, born with no body scent himself, begins a lifelong obsession with smell due to his amazing nose. Above all it is a story of identity, communication and the morality of the human spirit. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 cross-genre novel, originally published in German as Das Parfum, by writer Patrick Süskind. ![]()
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