Perfume
Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have attempted to mask or enhance their own odor by using perfume which emulates nature's pleasant smells. Many natural and man-made materials h...
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In the following review, Schwarz summarizes the plot and themes of Das Parfum, comparing the novel to the works of Günter Grass and Marcel Proust.
In eighteenth-century Paris the illegitimat...
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In the following essay, Jacobson explicates Das Parfum in terms of the traditions of Küstlerliteratur and literary postmodernism.
Its immense popularity notwithstanding, the critical recepti...
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In the following essay, Donahue speculates on the relationship between the formal pastiche of Das Parfum and parallel developments in New Historicism, demonstrating how the novel's parody of Pe...
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In the following essay, Borchardt examines the function and subversion of picaresque novel conventions in Perfume, equating the authorial narrator of the picaresque novel with Perfume's hyperbo...
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In the following essay, Whitinger and Herzog explore the elements of “postmodernist parody” found in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Das Fräulein von Scuderi and Süskind'...
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In the following essay, Butterfield examines Das Parfum in terms of the positive values of the text's negativity as postulated by Theodor Adorno's concept of “determinate negation...
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In the following essay, Adams explores the relation between Süskind's personal identity and literary persona as projected in the themes and characters of Das Parfum, demonstrating how th...
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In the following essay, Stolz discusses Das Parfum within the context of “new” countercultural European narrative techniques.
Mein Genie ist in meinen Nüstern …
(Nie...
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In the following essay, Moffatt diagnoses Grenouille, the protagonist in Das Parfum, with acute schizophrenia, exploring the critical implications of the relationship between Grenouille and his cultur...
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In the following review, Baumgarten evaluates the metaphorical use of the sense of smell in Perfume.
Patrick Süskind's first novel [Perfume] comes here accompanied by the full blast o...
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In the following review, Terry assesses the style and themes of Perfume, calling the novel a “fascinating exploration of the ‘essence’ of identity.”
Long before this nov...
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In the following review, Sutherland discusses the examination of scents and smells throughout literature, comparing the themes and styles of Perfume and The Double Bass.
In his autobiographical pap...
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In the following review, Brunskill compares and contrasts The Pigeon with Das Parfum, focusing on the protagonists, themes, and styles.
In The Parable of the Blind, Gert Hofmann uses the collective...
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In the following essay, Ryan examines the textual significance of allusions in Das Parfum to the Romanticism and Symbolist-Aestethic literary periods in light of postmodern ideas concerning pastiche a...
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Imagine you are a teenage girl flicking through the latest issue of `bliss'. Your main concerns in life are what you will wear to the latest party or whether or not the cutest boy in school likes you!...
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This is an advertisement for the perfume `Exclamation Star'. I came across this in the magazine Bliss. The reason this advertisement was published in this magazine is because it appeals to the audienc...
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Perfume
Critical Review by Robert Schwarz
Comparison of Advertising for Girls' Perfume
