This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including solitude, madness and obsession. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide...
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis)
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280627978156EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including solitude, madness and obsession. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Patrick Süskind
Presentation of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Summary of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Character study
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Other characters
Grenouille's victims
Analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The portrait of a psychopath
An olfactory story
A portrait of the 18th century
A hybrid novel
About Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is set in 18th-century France and tells the story of an isolated orphan with an extraordinary sense of smell. Initially, he becomes a perfumer, but then embarks on a series of murders in a quest to create a perfume with irresistible power.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was a major commercial success, both in Germany and abroad. It sold at least 400 000 copies the year it was released, and has been translated into over 40 languages.
About Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind is a contemporary German writer of novels, short stories, plays and scripts. His breakthrough came in 1981 with his play The Double Bass, which takes the form of the monologue of a musician whose life is completely ruled by his instrument. This was followed by two successful novels, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and The Pigeon. Overall, Süskind's work stands out for its detailed and insightful descriptions of isolated individuals and monomaniacs.
Süskind divides his time between Germany and France, and has chosen to avoid interviews and photographs.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including solitude, madness and obsession. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Patrick Süskind
Presentation of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Summary of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Character study
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
Other characters
Grenouille's victims
Analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The portrait of a psychopath
An olfactory story
A portrait of the 18th century
A hybrid novel
About Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind's novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is set in 18th-century France and tells the story of an isolated orphan with an extraordinary sense of smell. Initially, he becomes a perfumer, but then embarks on a series of murders in a quest to create a perfume with irresistible power.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was a major commercial success, both in Germany and abroad. It sold at least 400 000 copies the year it was released, and has been translated into over 40 languages.
About Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind is a contemporary German writer of novels, short stories, plays and scripts. His breakthrough came in 1981 with his play The Double Bass, which takes the form of the monologue of a musician whose life is completely ruled by his instrument. This was followed by two successful novels, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and The Pigeon. Overall, Süskind's work stands out for its detailed and insightful descriptions of isolated individuals and monomaniacs.
Süskind divides his time between Germany and France, and has chosen to avoid interviews and photographs.application/pdf1
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This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Patrick Süskind
- Presentation of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Summary of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- Character study
- Jean-Baptiste Grenouille
- Other characters
- Grenouille’s victims
- Analysis of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
- The portrait of a psychopath
- An olfactory story
- A portrait of the 18th century
- A hybrid novel
About Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind’s novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is set in 18th-century France and tells the story of an isolated orphan with an extraordinary sense of smell. Initially, he becomes a perfumer, but then embarks on a series of murders in a quest to create a perfume with irresistible power.
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer was a major commercial success, both in Germany and abroad. It sold at least 400 000 copies the year it was released, and has been translated into over 40 languages.
About Patrick Süskind
Patrick Süskind is a contemporary German writer of novels, short stories, plays and scripts. His breakthrough came in 1981 with his play The Double Bass, which takes the form of the monologue of a musician whose life is completely ruled by his instrument. This was followed by two successful novels, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer and The Pigeon. Overall, Süskind’s work stands out for its detailed and insightful descriptions of isolated individuals and monomaniacs.
Süskind divides his time between Germany and France, and has chosen to avoid interviews and photographs.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782806279781 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | BrightSummaries.com |
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| Pages | 56 |
| File size | 2.3 MB |
