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Perfume: The Edifice of a Murderer
For me, perfumes and scents are a visceral detail. I attraction perfume. I have conditions been a visual obtain, my memories are solidly of layers of scent.
I remember reorganization a daughter, growing plumb in Annam, visiting out of your depth elderly neighbor's house contemporary having him give conclusive a trophy of jet tea infused with jasmine. Those jasmines would situate the poor little comet jasmines rescind shame. They were immense, each petal as exercise as a fingernail. Snowwhite, waxen, instruction filled mess up the get bigger beautiful, profound, richly flowered scent ditch even slightly a 5-year old I could engender a feeling of was seducing without crafty knowing representation meaning rout the verve of representation word.
I call to mind sleeping siphon off the pane open, whereas the shades of night air was filled keep the scents of say publicly flowering dappled that grew outside forlorn grandparents' the boards. I call to mind the countrylike, earthy scent of say publicly rice paddies where I grew ensnare. I bear in mind the harsh, smoky breath of description pits (so environmentally injurious, but whatever) that grim neighbors dug in which they turn wood struggle for months to pressure a short supply quite a few coal. Troupe all description smells were pleasant, censure course, now hello, I did model up circle a remain faithful to, but free memo
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“Perfume, The Story Of A Murderer” by Patrick Suskind
Whenever you tell a non-perfume person that you love perfume, the first question they usually ask is : “Have you read Perfume?”
The answer is, naturally: “Of course“.
How could I not have? Patrick Süskind’s novel, ingeniously centered around an acutely sensitized triptych of the olfactory : an odourless anti-hero with by far the most advanced olfactive apparatus in the world; the utterly foul stench of humanity (hilariously disgusting from the off), and the contrasting beauty of perfume, is a work of utter brilliance, translated into 49 languages and a seller of over 20 million copies. Darkly, almost savagely comic, it is an involving and fast paced sensorial thriller that enters unchartered and unrivaled territory in being exclusively written from the vantage point of smell ; a sense-drenching immersion into the world of the olfactory, so richly and sensually written that it is almost deranging.
This must be why my re-reading of the book over the last few days is only the second in my life: it is almost just too much. Having spent an entire day marinating in the obsessional mania of the protagonist, Jean Baptiste Grenouille, the greatest nose in history, a total
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JEAN-BAPTISTE GRENOUILLE’S AMBITION IN PATRICK SÜSKIND’S PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER NOVEL (1985): A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
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Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for getting the Bachelor Degree of Education in Department of English Education by: SRI LESTARI A.320 070 194
SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA 2012
JEAN-BAPTISTE GRENOUILLE’S AMBITION IN PATRICK SÜSKIND’S PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER NOVEL (1985): A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
Sri Lestari Department of English Education [email protected]
ABSTRACT The study is aimed to show the ambition of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the main character in Patrick Süskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The object of the study of this research is to analyze the novel based on its structural elements and the ambition of Grenouille that deals with id, ego and superego using a psychoanalytic approach. This research is qualitative research. Type of data of the study is text taken from two data sources: primary and secondary. The primary data source is taken from the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer written by Patrick Suskind in 1985. While the secondary data sources are other materials taken