Write a summary about what the writer learned about perfume in his class.
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My first perfume class
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The story follows Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, an unloved orphan in 18th-century France who is born with an exceptional sense of smell, capable of distinguishing a vast range of scents in the world around him. Grenouille becomes a perfumer but later becomes involved in murder when he encounters a young girl with an unsurpassed wondrous scent.
With translations into 49 languages and more than 20 million copies sold worldwide to date, Perfume is one of the best-selling German novels of the 20th century. The title remained in bestseller lists for about nine years, and received almost unanimously positive national and international critical acclaim. It was translated into English by John E. Woods and won both the World Fantasy Award and the PEN Translation Prize in 1987. Some editions of the novel, including the first, have as their cover image Antoine Watteau's painting Jupiter and Antiope, which depicts a sleeping woman.Grenouille's mother – Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was her fifth baby. She had claimed her first four were stillbirths or "semi-stillbirths". In her mid-twenties, with most of her teeth left, "some hair on her head", and a touch of gout, syphilis, and consumption, she was still quite pretty.Style Edit
The style of the novel can be characterized by the way it blends fantasy and fiction with factual information.That combination creates two distinguishable narrative lines – the fantastic one, which is conveyed in Grenouille's supernatural sense of smell, his odorlessness and fairy-tale tones in the story; and the realistic one, composed of the socio-historical circumstances of the plot and naturalistic descriptions of i.a. the environment, the perfume production and murders.The novel’s realism is also visible in thorough descriptions of historical perfumery practices.[7] According to Rindisbacher, the work “gathered together and phrased in popular terms the state of the art of olfactory and perfumistic knowledge and spun it out… into the realm of fantasy and imagination.”Style Edit
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