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Key facts
- Author
- Patrick Süskind
- Cover artist
- Antoine Watteau detail from, " Jupiter and Antiope ", 1715–16
- Language
- German
- Genre
- Horror fiction , mystery , magic realism , absurd
- Set in
- Paris , Montpellier , Grasse and Plomb du Cantal ; 1738–1767
- Publisher
- Diogenes (Germany), Alfred A. Knopf (US), Hamish Hamilton (UK)
- Publication place
- Germany
- Media type
- Print ( Hardback & paperback )
- Pages
- 263 (UK hardback edition)
- Isbn
- 0-241-11919-7 (UK hardback edition)
- Library of congress classification span
- PT2681 .U74
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Patrick Süskind
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Main subject
- obsession
- Narrative location
- Montpellier
- Image
- El-perfume.jpg
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- publication date
- 1985-00-00
- title
- Das Parfum
- language of work or name
- German
- inception
- 1949-00-00
- derivative work
- Perfume
- form of creative work
- novel
- cover art by
- Jean-Antoine Watteau
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/1986/09/21/books/a-killer-haunted-by-smells.html
- Commons category
- Das Parfum
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Encyclopedic overview
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (German: Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders [das paʁˈfœ̃ː diː ɡəˈʃɪçtə ˈʔaɪnəs ˈmœʁdɐs] ) is a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents may have.
The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perfume” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.