Carlos Cámara reviewed El perfume by Patrick Süskind (Biblioteca Formentor)
Pretencioso y tedioso. Más que un libro parece un ejercicio literario.
1 star
Pretencioso y tedioso. Más que un libro parece un ejercicio literario.
272 Seiten
English language
Am 24. Mai 1987 von Penguin Books Ltd veröffentlicht.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders; pronounced [das paʁˈfɛ̃ː diː ɡəˈʃɪçtə ˈaɪ̯nəs ˈmœʁdɐs] (listen)) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have. The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent. With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide to date, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. The title remained in bestseller lists for about nine years, and received almost unanimously positive national and international …
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders; pronounced [das paʁˈfɛ̃ː diː ɡəˈʃɪçtə ˈaɪ̯nəs ˈmœʁdɐs] (listen)) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have. The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent. With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide to date, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. The title remained in bestseller lists for about nine years, and received almost unanimously positive national and international critical acclaim. It was translated into English by John E. Woods and won both the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. Some editions of the novel, including the first, have as their cover image Antoine Watteau's painting Jupiter and Antiope, which depicts a sleeping woman.
Pretencioso y tedioso. Más que un libro parece un ejercicio literario.