5/22/2023 0 Comments Das parfum bookHowever, there is one scent he is particularly attracted to and it turns out to belong to a beautiful young woman. It is here that he discovers a wide variety of scents. When he is eight, Mme Gaillard sells him to Monsieur Grimal, a tanner, who allows him to wander the streets after work. However, though he has no scent, he has a superb sense of smell, learning language, for example, by associating words with scents. He is rejected by others and he soon develops reciprocal feelings, disliking his fellow man. As she lost her sense of smell when a child, she does not notice his lack of scent. Eventually, he ends up in an orphanage with Madame Gaillard. The real reason is that he does not smell. He is passed from wet nurse to wet nurse, each one rejecting him, though she is not always clear why. His mother abandons him but his cries attract passers-by and he is saved, while his mother is sentenced to death for attempted infanticide. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille ( grenouille is the French for frog) is born in 1738 in a smelly fish market. It is concerned, as the title indicates, with scent, with smell, and, in particular, what they mean for human communication. Süskind prefers, like many writers, to write about outsiders and this book is certainly about an outsider. Home » Germany » Patrick Süskind » Das Parfum (Perfume) Patrick Süskind: Das Parfum (Perfume)
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