Byline: Jessica Au Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is out roaming the dark streets of 18th-century Paris when something catches his nose. Sniffing the air, he follows the intoxicating aroma down a deserted alley to find that it belongs to a young girl sitting at...

TOM ROBBINS was born in 1936, in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, a fact to which his public reaction has been, "So what?" He attended Washington and Lee University in Virginia, where he was bored by the notion of becoming a perfect Southern gentleman....

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 the text undermines the conventional opinion that a literary text exclusively belongs to its author.

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's Das Parfum.

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 cultural milieu and showing how the text subverts received notions of socio-cultural development and human progress.