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Perfume

This document provides information about the 1985 novel Perfume by German author Patrick Süskind. It summarizes that the novel centers around Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan with an incredible sense of smell born with no human feelings or empathy. Grenouille kills a young girl so he can smell her and later travels to France to discover the art of perfume-making.

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Perfume

This document provides information about the 1985 novel Perfume by German author Patrick Süskind. It summarizes that the novel centers around Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an orphan with an incredible sense of smell born with no human feelings or empathy. Grenouille kills a young girl so he can smell her and later travels to France to discover the art of perfume-making.

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WORKS IN TRANSLATION! Perfume


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• Written in 1985
under german name Das Parfum

• Born March 26, 1949


in Ambach, Germany
• Began as a playwright
• Secretive (only 1 photo of him)
• Humble (refused $5000 prize)
• Other works include:
The Pigeon, The Story of Mr.Sommer

Summary:
• Centres around Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

Pertinent Themes: • Incredible sense of smell


• Orphan
Isolation Perception of world through smell • Mother executed

• Kills young girl to smell her!


Significance of smell Children seen as subhuman

Lack of human feeling and empathy Becomes apprentice, falls ill, revives.
Trip to Grasse France for perfume.

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