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    Patrick Süskind is a German writer born in 1949 known best for his novel Perfume. He studied history in university but did not graduate. His career peaked from 1981-2006 during which he wrote Perfume and other works. Süskind now lives in reclusion in Germany and France, sharing little publicly. Perfume was rejected many times before publication in 1985 and worldwide success, adapted as a film in 2006. The novel blends reality and fantasy through Grenouille's extreme personality and represents the dehumanization of an abused child. While his only novel, Süskind has also written screenplays, novellas, and essays.

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    Patrick Süskind is a German writer born in 1949 known best for his novel Perfume. He studied history in university but did not graduate. His career peaked from 1981-2006 during which he wrote Perfume and other works. Süskind now lives in reclusion in Germany and France, sharing little publicly. Perfume was rejected many times before publication in 1985 and worldwide success, adapted as a film in 2006. The novel blends reality and fantasy through Grenouille's extreme personality and represents the dehumanization of an abused child. While his only novel, Süskind has also written screenplays, novellas, and essays.

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    Patrick Süskind is a German writer born in 1949 known best for his novel Perfume. He studied history in university but did not graduate. His career peaked from 1981-2006 during which he wrote Perfume and other works. Süskind now lives in reclusion in Germany and France, sharing little publicly. Perfume was rejected many times before publication in 1985 and worldwide success, adapted as a film in 2006. The novel blends reality and fantasy through Grenouille's extreme personality and represents the dehumanization of an abused child. While his only novel, Süskind has also written screenplays, novellas, and essays.

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    General information- Adam

    Patrik Suskind is a German writer and screenwriter, most well known for his novel Perfume: The
    Story of a Murderer. He was born on the 26th of March 1949 in Ambach, near Munich in Germany.
    His father, Wilhelm Emanuel Suskind was a journalist and a writer, and is most well known for being
    the co-author of Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen (From the Dictionary of an Inhuman).
    From 1968 to 1974 Suskind studied medieval and modern history at the University of Munich, but he
    never graduated. In 1974 he moved to Paris, where he wrote “mainly short, unpublished fiction and
    longer screenplays which were not made into films”.
    The height of his career began in 1981 and ended in 2006.
    Patrick Suskind lives in recluse in Seeheim, Munich in Germany and in France at Montolieu.
    Very little is known about Patrick Suskind, as he has withdrawn from literary society, does not grant
    interviews or allow himself to be photographed.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_S%C3%BCskind

    Perfume stuff- Cornely


    Perfume was rejected numerous times before finally getting published in 1985 by Diogenes.Perfume
    was released in 1985. This book has been translated to over 25 languages, there is a movie and the
    lyrics of a song by Nirvana is based on it. This book is especially interesting for the people who are
    interested in history and this book is not recommended for people who have no interest in history.
    The unusual way of having many small chapters is done by Suskind because it makes Grenouille’s
    personality more extreme.
    The book is a mixture of reality and fantasy, where the realistic parts in the book distract the reader
    from the amount of fantasy that is in the book and the fantasy giving this story is used to make the
    character grow and as metaphor, where Grenouille represents the dehumanization of an abused and
    abandoned child.
    ‘’This novel thus can also reveal or explain something of the irrationality of human behavior. To the
    extent that we believe we make most of our decisions about others using reason and conscious
    choice, the existence of prejudices based on smells perceived unconsciously throws this view into
    chaos. This kind of foundation-shaking existentialism is a powerful feature of Süskind's work.’’ -
    gradesaver
    https://www.gradesaver.com/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer

    Other works- Fareda


    Perfume is Süskind's only novel but it is not his only work. He also has written multiple TV
    screenplays, novellas and essays, as well as published translations of work by the French cartoonist
    Jean- Jacque Sempes. He has won various literary prizes for his works, many of which he has
    declined to receive. He has given four interviews, according to the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung,
    most of which is from the 1980s. There are barely any public photos of him. After a decade long wait
    to obtain film rights from the author, Perfume was eventually made into a film in 2006 by director
    Tom Twyker however Süskind did not attend the premiere. Süskind's last work of fictional book is
    The Story of Mr Sommer (1991), a novella about a boy growing up rather unhappily in a small village
    in southern Germany. Süskind's most recent work is the essay On Love and Death, which was
    published in 2006. At age 70, plenty about Süskind remains a mystery…
    https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-most-mysterious-author-patrick-süskind-at-70/a-48050838

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