Perfume: Complete and Unabridged Audio, Cassette – Audiobook, Unabridged Author: Visit Amazon's Patrick Suskind Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0140862919 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Penguin's unabridged production of this international best seller is a thoroughly captivating production. Suskind's demented protagonist, Jean-Baptist Grenouille, is a "gifted abomination" whose highly developed sense of smell could easily make him the greatest perfumer of all time. Given the general stench of 18th-century cities, good perfumers were held in high regard. However, Grenouille the misfit, scorned by society throughout his life, hasn't the heart to create pretty perfumes for society's elite. When he finally does earn the adoration of the masses through his twisted genius, he decides that he would much prefer to "exterminate all these stupid, stinking people from the earth." Reader Sean Barrett does not overdramatize the often sensational events here but instead relates them with a measured, detached air that perfectly captures Suskind's cool tone. Also, his reserved narrative style allows listeners to appreciate Suskind's expert use of language (passages from this novel can be found in dictionaries of similes). This extraordinary production is highly recommended for all serious fiction collections.?Beth Farrell, Portage Cty. Dist. Lib., Ohio
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- Publisher: Penguin Audio; Unabridged edition (May 1, 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140862919
- ISBN-13: 978-0140862911
- Product Dimensions: 2 x 4.5 x 5.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
I first heard of this novel in conjunction with the release of the movie "Perfume" and after reading some complimentary material from Roger Ebert about the original written work (translated from the German) I decided to give this story a try. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the story itself is very accessible & well written, and that the murders described on the book jacket are not where Suskind turns his graphic focus. Grenouille (sp?), the murderer, is a unique character. He is blessed (cursed?) with an incredible sense of smell and the ability to store any scent he encounters in the vaults of his memory for repeated enjoyment later. Think of him as a "scent savant." Furthermore, he has no smell of his own - no body odor, nothing. After surviving a less-than-ideal birth and subsequent rearing at the hands of wetnurses, monks, and tanners, He becomes an apprentice perfume maker and helps his mentor become one of the most popular perfumers in France by using his unique gifts to create evocative perfumes that dazzle the senses and sell for great sums of money. However, as Grenouille learns the perfumer's art we learn that his motives are suspect - scent is all he is concerned with, and he wants to learn to distill and extract odors of living things and objects, not just flowers and other plants used in perfuming. From there, the book follows G's relationship with scent and how he covets the life essence of young women, leading to a self-initiated hermitage, subsequent murder spree, and eventually a spectacular resolution of the plot. If you are wary of this book because you are not one who wants to read about graphic mutilations and "CSI" like corpse descriptions, then by all means don't worry. The murders are not the story...
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