#Das Parfum

[bellasbookclub]

Reccer Spotlight: G!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Mexican Gothic

Jamaica Inn

The Monstrumologist

A River Enchanted

The Importance of Being Earnest

G tried to think of genre-ly diverse recs and they came out Oops, All Gothic (ok, except for the last two.) Full text available in their tab of the Bella’s Book Club Summer Reading ‘23 Reclist!

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[gottdeswill]

[lesbian-gene-wolfe]

i love german because this is a normal sentence length:

Er hieß Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, und wenn sein Name im Gegensatz zu den Namen anderer genialer Scheusale, wie etwa de Sades, Saint-Justs, Fouches, Bonapartes usw., heute in Vergessenheit geraten ist, so sicher nicht deshalb, weil Grenouille diesen berühmteren Finstermännern an Selbstüberhebung, Menschenverachtung, Immoralität, kurz an Gottlosigkeit nachgestanden hätte, sondern weil sich sein Genie und sein einziger Ehrgeiz auf ein Gebiet beschränkte, welches in der Geschichte keine Spuren hinterlässt: auf das flüchtige Reich der Gerüche.

and so is this:

Seine Geschichte soll hier erzählt werden.

beautiful language. we also have to abbreviate normal words because they get to long like bzw for beziehungsweise because literally no one wants to type that out everytime we need it

[zoimpetridou]

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

Patrick Süskind

[plottwistedstory]

<<< reading & writing in new places

[idislikefrenchclass]

Hell yeah jean-baptiste grenuille kill that girl to inhale her smell!!!!

(probably most german post I ever posted)

[the-dose-makes-the-poison]

"He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent."

(Patrick Süskind, The Perfume)

[raphlecia]

— Patrick Süskind, Das Parfum (1985)

[mindofthemage]

Going to watch Perfume: The Story of a Murderer in cinema today. (It's an older movie they just show it again)

We read that book in school and it was the only book I've ever finished that we got assigned. And I also liked the movie when I watched it.

I haven't seen the movie since I've got my autism/adhd diagnosis and in retrospective it now makes so much sense why I love that book.

I releated to Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Dude got overstimulated, the kids picked up on him being different and avoided him because of it and he dude had a special interest.

Jean-Baptiste got assigned blorbo by 14 year old undiagnosed me.

(And sure he ends up killing people but who cares about the details lol)

[beauty-is-terrror]

One of my favourite books of all time.

[pixelmesh-studio]

Der Klassiker den jeder gelesen haben sollte.

[elasgottoomuchfreetime]

We read Das Parfum in my German course some time ago and it was kind of… interesting. I honestly really liked the ending (so like spoiler alert if you should want to read it).

Everyone said the book is sick & disgusting, and it was in certain parts, but I’ve read worse, so I wasn’t shocked tbh.

And like, in the end he puts on that perfume (the best smelling perfume in the entire world) and everyone loves him and they have like orgies in his nam. But he still doesn’t like feel… content? I‘d say?

A little backstory, our boy the MC never smelled like anything himself, but he has the most incredible sense of smelling. Everyone thought he was weird, because someone not smelling like anything is suspicious to humans. So naturally he became a serial killer and killed girls who smell good (which according to him is rare cause humans usually don’t smell good), to make perfumes out of them. I don’t remember the process don’t judge me.

Anyways, he put on the perfume, everyone went crazy and fell in love with him on the spot and he didn’t like it as much as he thought he would. So in the end I think, he like dunked himself in that perfume and went to the outskirts of the city where „the bad folk“ lives. And they go so crazy with the scent, that they eat him alive.

Besides the fact that he made that perfume to be loved smh (I only read the book once I might’ve gotten that wrong), what really got me was one of the last sentences.

After they ate him, they were all sitting there, all ashamed and stuff, and unsure what to do and then the book said But it was the first time they did something out of love

And while I agree that what happened was sick and twisted, I also thought that sentence was very beautiful in a way.

[martinmynster]

my brother in christ is OUT ❎🙅🏽‍♂️❌ my brother in fluid is IN ☑️👍🏼🙋🏽‍♂️✔️

[ritterintahlia]

Am Freitag, 21. Juni zu Ende gelesen: Das Parfum von Patrick Süskind

Seit 2020 lese ich dieses Buch jeden Sommer; es ist mein Muss! Und gerade diese Ausgabe habe ich - nicht nur der Text (eine Parodie der Ära), sondern auch die Ausstattung ist dem 18. Jh. angemessen. Das Buch ist höchst lesenswert - aber man muss damit rechnen, dass es auch Elemente gibt, die nicht jedem gut tun, deshalb:

WARNING: murder, cannibalism mention, period-typical prejudice (1700s), violence

[athena-goddess-of-arts]

“When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.“

[Parfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind]

[triforcevillains]

Das Parfum – Die Geschichte eines Mörders (2006) Ein zu Tode verurteilter Serienmörder, der sein Urteil in einem Kerker abwartet, denkt an seine vergangenen Taten zurück. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille Leben ist von Anfang an von Gerüchen geprägt. Er kommt auf einem französischen Fischmarkt zur Welt, umgeben von einem abstoßenden Gestank, der sich aus faulenden Meerestieren und ungewaschenen Stadtbewohnern zusammensetzt. Als Waisenkind wächst er in einem Heim auf und entwickelt im Laufe seines Lebens einen ausgeprägten Sinn für Gerüche.

Jean trifft im Zuge seiner Arbeit den berühmten Parfümeur Pelissier, der dessen geschickte Nase zu seinem Vorteil nutzt - er lehrt ihn das Herstellen von Düften. Jean hat besonderes Interesse an dem Odor junger Frauen und nutzt ihre Körper für die Herstellung eines ganz besonderen Parfüms. (10/10)