martes, 22 de abril de 2008

Perfume


Today I'm going to talk about the last book I read PEFUME that is the story of a murder. It relates the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille that is an unwanted Parisian who hasn’t personal scent and is rejected by others. He gets an extraordinary power to discern odors. He is a tanner and after work he explores the city, One day he smelled a divine and wonderful scent and he followed it, and he was shocked to find that the source of this beautiful scent is a young woman but he heats women so he killed her to get her scent, but when she death the divine odor evaporates so he dedicates his life to discovering the perfect scent.
He tried to preserved and he became apprenticed to a great perfumer, Grenoulle traveled to Montpelier where was an amateur scientist Marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse, there he creates a body odor for himself from the ingredients "cat shit, cheese, and vinegar", in the city of Grasse, Grenouille again was intoxicated by the scent of a young woman, Lauren and he planned kill her in two years, he started career of serial murder of beautiful virgins.
But Lauren’s father put the pieces together on the pattern of murders and realized that Lauren was going to be the next victim. He escaped with Lauren but Grenouille chased them and killed Lauren capturing her scent. He was apprehended and sentenced to death, but on the day of his execution he was wearing scent of Lauren, and he was pardoned for his crimes, and Lauren’s father even wants to adopt him. But the experience of the power has dissatisfied Grenouille, because he is not loved for himself, but yes for the perfume he created. He decided to return to Paris with thieves and murderers; they tear him to pieces and devour the remains of his body.

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