Perfume

Resumen del libro

'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent . . .''

Biografía del autor

Patrick Süskind nació en 1949 en la localidad bávara de Ambach, en Alemania. Su primera novela, El perfume (Seix Barral, 1985), le valió inmediata notoriedad mundial. Es autor también del monólogo El contrabajo (Seix Barral, 1986), de las novelas La paloma (Seix Barral, 1987) y La historia del señor Sommer (Seix Barral, 1991), y del libro Un combate y otros relatos (Seix Barral, 1996).