El perfume: Historia de un asesino
224 pages, Hardcover
First published February 26,1985
This edition
- Format
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224 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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July 1, 1993 by RBA Editores
- ISBN
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9788447300013
- ASIN
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8447300013
- Language
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Spanish; Castilian
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Jean-baptiste Grenouille
Born 17 July 1738, with an innate prodigious sense of smell (and also for unexplained reasons no personal scent of his own). His awareness of scent eventually leads him to conceive of capturing human scents, specifically, those able to inspire love, which...
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Giuseppe Baldini
An old traditional perfumer with his once-great reputation now fading. He yearns for the old days when tastes in perfume did not change much over the decades, and is angry at what he feels are upstarts in the fast-moving perfume trade of his later life. S...
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Madame Gaillard
She has no sense of smell, due to being hit across the face with a poker in her younger years, so she does not know that Grenouille has no scent. In charge of a boarding house, her goal in life is to save enough money to have a proper death and funeral. M...
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Jeanne Bussie
One of Grenouilles many wet-nurses. She is the first person to realise he has no scent and claims he is sucking all the life out of her.more...
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Father Terrier
He is in charge of the churchs charities and distribution of its money to the poor and needy. He first thinks Grenouille is a cute baby, but once Grenouille begins to sniff Terrier, the priest is highly disturbed and sends the baby to a boarding hou...
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Grimal
A tanner who lives near the river in the rue de la Mortellerie. Grenouille works for him from age eight into his early youth until Baldini pays for him to be released. With this immense new income of money, he wastes it on an alcoholic binge; his drunkenn...
About the author
After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass, 1981), which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide.
