Perfume | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of Perfume.

Perfume | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 20 pages of analysis & critique of Perfume.
This section contains 5,312 words
(approx. 18 pages at 300 words per page)
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SOURCE: Stolz, Dieter. “Patrick Süskind's Parfum: ‘No One Knows How Well Made It Is.’” In German-Language Literature Today: International and Popular?, edited by Arthur Williams, Stuart Parkes, and Julian Preece, pp. 19-30. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2000.

In the following essay, Stolz discusses Das Parfum within the context of “new” countercultural European narrative techniques.

Mein Genie ist in meinen Nüstern …

(Nietzsche: Ecce Homo)

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Also das gibt es immer noch oder schon wieder: einen deutschen Schriftsteller, der des Deutschen mächtig ist; einen zeitgenössischen Erzähler, der dennoch erzählen kann; einen Romancier, der uns nicht mit dem Spiegelbild seines Bauchnabels belästigt; einen jungen Autor, der trotzdem kein Langweiler ist.

(Marcel Reich-Ranicki)

Not to him, R.-R., the preening media star of latter days, but to him, the publicity-shy creator of the Perfume that lingers unforgettably on, be thanks! Without his piece of artistic magic an...

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