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I am currently reading Perfume by Patrick Suskind. I donapos;t know how I had never heard of this book until recently. It is absolutely beautiful and interesting.

It is about a man, Grenouille, who was born with an incredible sense of smell. So incredible that he is able to speak more fluently with scent than language, that he can detect individual smells from miles away, from years ago. And yet he, himself, has no scent at all. He lives in several different places throughout the story, and each time he leaves somewhere, he leaves only death and destruction behind him, as a kind of aftertaste of his presence.

Grenouille, however, has no sense of humanity or god. He does not seek love or affection. He does not seek company at all or crave spirituality. In fact, when he finally leaves Paris, he realizes that he craves nothing but his own solitude. He lives in a cave which has never been inhabited by another living being, and thus leaves no scent of one, in a mountain for seven years.

I think this is interesting because the imagery of solitude on top of a mountain is usually reserved for prophets: for someone seeking to be closer with god and then bring down a message. However, in Grenouilleapos;s case, he seeks to day dream of his inner worlds, to categorize his library of scents that he has collected throughout his life. His heart was a purple castle..., Suskind writes, and this is where Grenouille spends practically all of his seven years there dwelling, going deeper and deeper within himself. So spoke Grenouille the Great and, while the peasantry of scent danced and celebrated beneath him, he glided with wide-stretched wings down from his golden clouds, across the nocturnal fields of his soul, and home to his heart. Grenouille does not seek God; he seeks his own ego.

There was also a movie made of the book, somewhat recently. To be sure, it is an okay movie. I enjoyed watching it. Dustin Hoffman is in it, though. It seems like whenever Hoffman makes an appearance at this point, the main point of comedy is just that Hoffman is making an appearance because heapos;s so damn goofy.

Anyway, despite my inadequate descriptions of the story, it is absolutely beautiful and the writing is exceptional.

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