![]() 'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay. ![]() Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' Literary Review Everything you need for every book you read. 'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity. Perfume by Patrick Süskind Upgrade to A + Intro Plot Summary Summary & Analysis Themes Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Wheel Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on Perfume can help. It is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent. Grenouille’s passion turns to deep ambition, wanting to make an ultimate perfume the perfect perfume no-one has ever made before. With Grenouille as the main lead who do not understand what is love, how to love and never yearns to be love. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today. However, Patrick Süskind relate the perfume story quite on point with the reality. ![]() In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian ![]() ![]() An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris ![]()
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