Patrick Süskind Book order (chronological)

Zwei Männer spielen Schach im Pariser Jardin du Luxembourg. Der eine ist ein genialischer Emporkömmling, der andere ein alter Champion, der in seinen Denkmustern gefangen ist. Wem schenkt das Publikum seine Gunst? Wessen König fällt zuerst?

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.

그레누이(Grenouille)는 그의 어머니가 생선을 손질하는 거친 나무 벤치 위에서 태어난다. 장소는 파리의 시장, 시간은 18세기. 일반적인 인간이라면 파리의 빈민가가 이루는 악취 나고 잔인한 세계에서 빠르게 무너질 것이다. 하지만 그레누이는 일반적인 인간이 아니다. 그는 완전히 체취가 없으며, 사람들은 이유를 이해하지 못한 채 그의 존재에 불편함을 느낀다. 그는 끊임없는 고립 속에 살아간다. 그의 비밀을 지키는 것은 더욱 쉬워진다 - 그는 어둠 속에서도 수 킬로미터 떨어진 곳에서 악취 나는 인간 군중을 뚫고 단 한 사람의 냄새를 추적할 수 있을 만큼 뛰어난 후각을 타고났다. 그는 결코 냄새를 잊지 않는다. 향기는 그의 집착, 열정, 삶의 의미이자 직업 - 향수 제조사이다. 그에게 가장 극도의 쾌감을 주는 향기는 젊고 순수한 여성들에게서 찾는다; 여성들은 그를 흥미롭게 하지 않지만 - 향기! 그것은 추출되고 예술의 모든 규칙에 따라 정제되어야 한다. 세계에서 가장 뛰어난 향수 제조사인 그는 그 기술을 알고 있다. 그러나 그 행위는 끔찍한 조건에 얽매여 있다...

The author reveals the hidden source of his fiction - an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille tiene su marca de nacimiento: no despide ningún olor. Al mismo tiempo posee un olfato prodigioso que le permite percibir todos los olores del mundo. Desde la miseria en que nace, el protagonista escala posiciones sociales convirtiéndose en un afamado perfumista. Crea perfumes capaces de hacerle pasar inadvertido o inspira simpatía, amor... Para obtener estas fórmulas debe asesinar a jóvenes muchachas vírgenes, obtener fluidos corporales y licuar sus olores íntimos. Su arte se convierte en una suprema e inquietante prestidigitación.

Die Gäste des italienischen Restaurants 'Rossini' haben bei aller Verschiedenheit eines gemeinsam: Sie sind Singles, die das Lokal zu ihrem zweiten Zuhause gemacht haben. Ungeniert nutzen sie es als Wohnzimmer und Büro, für private und geschäftliche Auseinandersetzungen, als Forum ihrer Selbstdarstellung und als Bühne ihrer erotischen Lust- und Trauerspiele.

Un combate y otros relatos reúne cuatro textos de extensión muy diversa pero de la misma elevada calidad literaria. Los aúnan el gusto por lo insólito, el sentido -a veces sangrante, y siempre muy sutil- del humor y la capacidad de síntesis que caracterizan al autor de El perfume. A través de la historia de una pintora suicida, de una contienda de ajedrez en el jardín del Luxemburgo, del relato en primera persona de un orfebre dieciochesco en una atmósfera cercana a la de El perfume, o de una sátira de la falsa erudición literaria, Süskind nos ofrece en cada relato una pieza magistral de su arte peculiarísimo: «Un combate, en suma. Y cuatro formas de luchar contra los demás, pero sobre todo contra uno mismo: todos los personajes tienen en común un gusto inequívoco por la autodestrucción... Colega de Shakespeare, familiar de Tristram Shandy, el creador de El perfume es una enciclopedia. Pero, a diferencia de lo que ocurre con sus personajes, ello no le ha paralizado» (Michel Grisolia, L'Express).

Keuze van verhalen van buitenlandse auteurs uit het fonds van de uitgeverijen Bert Bakker en Prometheus.

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 boy's days.

Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Süskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder . . .

La contrebasse est l'instrument le plus gros, le plus puissant et le plus indispensable de l'orchestre, le plus beau aussi, dit d'abord le contrebassiste. Mais bientôt l'éloge pompeux laisse affleurer les frustrations et les rancoeurs du musicien et de l'homme. Et peu à peu la haine d'abord refoulée de cette encombrante compagne s'exprime, se déchaîne et explose jusqu'à la folie... Ce monologue tragique et drôle, par l'auteur du best-seller Le Parfum, tient l'affiche en Allemagne depuis des années. Interprété à Paris par Jacques Villeret, il a reçu un accueil triomphal.

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion--his sense of smell--leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"--the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity. Translated from the German by John E. Woods.