Born in sweaty, fetid 18th-century Paris, Grenouille is distinctive even in infancy. He has a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's and no personal odour. Suskind develops this idea into a tale of murder controlled by a loathing of humanity."
A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in silent haste, like a man possessed, with his empty rucksack and his long, odd-looking walking stick, Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boys days.
The story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of Jonathan Noel. Set in Paris, it reveals the tensions that can push such a person to the brink of insanity. Patrick Suskind has also written "Perfume", "The Story of Mr Sommer" and a play, "The Double Bass".
'According to Plato, fools do not strive for the beautiful and the good, for divine bliss, because they are satisfied with themselves. The wise do not strive for it either because they already have those things. Only the people in between, half-way between fools and the wise, you and I and all the others waiting patiently here in a traffic jam for the next green light, are vulnerable to the arrow of Eros.' On Love and Death is a witty and inspiring meditation on the erotic link between the two great forces of human existence. Patrick S|skind provocatively draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex while stuck in traffic, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love in his seventies, and as mythical as the stirring tales of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus.
Блистательный и загадочный "Парфюмер" Патрика Зюскинда был впервые напечатан в Швейцарии в 1985 году. Сегодня он признан самым знаменитым романом, написанным в немецком языке со времен "На Западном фронте без перемен" Ремарка, издан тиражом более 12 миллионов экземпляров, включая латынь, и, наконец, экранизирован. Фильм, вышедший в мировой прокат в 2006 году, имел огромный успех, а его создатели получили шесть наград Германской киноакадемии. Сегодня победное шествие Жан-Батиста Гренуя - великолепного всепобеждающего монстра - продолжается. Несомненно, этот захватывающий романтический детектив, уже ставший классикой, еще долго будет будоражить, притягивать и интриговать читателей самых разных пристрастий и вкусов.
Die Geschichte eines einmaligen Bestsellers Alles über „Das Parfum“ Seit Erich Maria Remarques „Im Westen nichts Neues“ hatte kein deutschsprachiges Buch so durchschlagenden Erfolg wie Patrick Süskinds „Das Parfum“. Was macht diesen Erfolg aus? Die Autoren führen kenntnisreich und unterhaltsam durch die Welt der Bücher und der Düfte, immer auf den Spuren des Duftgenies Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. So entsteht ein umfassendes Kompendium über diesen einmaligen Bestseller und den Film von Tom Tykwer mit Dustin Hoffman.
