Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A darkly mesmerizing work of literary fiction, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer chronicles the grotesque and obsessive life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an eighteenth-century French orphan born with a preternatural sense of smell but utterly devoid of his own scent — and, it seems, his own humanity. Set against the filth and splendor of pre-Revolutionary France, the novel traces Grenouille's apprenticeship in the perfume trade and his increasingly sinister quest to capture the perfect human scent, a pursuit that drives him to murder. Süskind writes with a tone that is at once clinical and hypnotic, rendering the repulsive with an almost seductive beauty that keeps the reader unsettled and transfixed in equal measure. The narrative argues, with chilling conviction, that genius and monstrosity are not opposites but twin expressions of the same consuming obsession. Widely regarded as a modern classic of German literature, this novel stands as a profound and disturbing meditation on identity, desire, and the terrifying power of the senses.
Author: Patrick Süskind
Format: Hardback
Published: 1987, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A darkly mesmerizing work of literary fiction, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer chronicles the grotesque and obsessive life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an eighteenth-century French orphan born with a preternatural sense of smell but utterly devoid of his own scent — and, it seems, his own humanity. Set against the filth and splendor of pre-Revolutionary France, the novel traces Grenouille's apprenticeship in the perfume trade and his increasingly sinister quest to capture the perfect human scent, a pursuit that drives him to murder. Süskind writes with a tone that is at once clinical and hypnotic, rendering the repulsive with an almost seductive beauty that keeps the reader unsettled and transfixed in equal measure. The narrative argues, with chilling conviction, that genius and monstrosity are not opposites but twin expressions of the same consuming obsession. Widely regarded as a modern classic of German literature, this novel stands as a profound and disturbing meditation on identity, desire, and the terrifying power of the senses.