Some writers, artists, musicians, or whatever other creators have the fortune, fortune, or predestination to create a masterpiece out of nothing. In the case of the noble art of writing, Patrick Süskind For me, he is one of those touched by luck or by God.
What's more, I'm sure that his novel The Perfume (reviewed here) was written at once. It can not be any other way. Absolute perfection (nothing to do with its shadows or vain attempts) does not conform to discipline but to chance, to the ephemeral. Complete beauty is a matter of imprint, of ravings, nothing to do with the rational.
Someone or something really possessed the author's hands to end up writing such a perfect work. In the famous novel Perfume, a sense: the smell, takes up its true sensory power, adored by modernity, by the visual and the auditory. Isn't it a more powerful memory than ever when associated with a smell?
The sad comes later. As a creator you know that you will never be able to do it again, because it has not been you, your hands have been governed by others, owned by others.
Wasn't that so, friend Patrick? That is why you remain an author in the shadows. Without showing to public life your frustration at having known the glory of the creation process.
However, there is merit to keep trying. Hence, I am encouraged to point out those other two good novels that can accompany from below, from contemplation, one of the few works of works.
3 Recommended Novels by Patrick Süskind
The perfume
Required reading for everyone with the use of reason, or without any reason, because you may recover it by sniffing these pages.
Summary: Rediscovering the world under the nose of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille seems essential to understand the balance between good and evil of our instincts.
Searching for essences with his privileged sense of smell, the unfortunate and disowned Grenouille feels capable of synthesizing with his alchemy the fascinating aroma of God himself. He dreams that one day, those who ignore him today will end up prostrate before him.
The price to pay for finding the irresistible essence of the Creator, which resides in each beautiful woman, in their wombs where life germinates, can be more or less expensive, depending on the final effect of the aroma achieved ...
The pigeon
Released shortly after Perfume, the least Patrick Süskind could hope for was unsubstantiated criticism. At least he did not insist on repeating successful formulas. Respecting your own work is essential to make you immortal, tarnishing it with second parts when there are none, it is fatal.
If this novel were named after another creator, it might have taken greater flights. It is more than likely that this disturbing intention from the dreamlike or the obsessive is even better than La Kafka metamorphosis, but preceded by Perfume, it remains a good novel, to dry.
Summary: The Dove is the story of an incident in Paris. A parable of unusual everyday life that expands until it acquires the dimension of a nightmare. A singular character one day discovers the unexpected presence of a dove in front of the room in which he resides.
This unforeseen and miniscule mishap takes on terrifying proportions in the mind of the protagonist, turning into a terrifying and grotesque nightmare at the same time the journey of his life, which the reader will witness.
Master of allusion and the obsessive, Süskind reveals once again his gift of building, on the apparent paradox or strangeness, a revealing moral metaphor for the background of human existence.
The story of Mr. Sommer
What happens when we look at an absolutely strange guy? What is it that draws us towards weirdness? On many occasions we would like to know what that sullen guy does, that woman with a lost gaze or that boy with a fleeting greeting. Mr Somme may end up being talkative. He's a very strange guy, but he has a lot to tell ...
Summary: The story of Mr. Sommer tells the life of a small town boy who has a strange neighbor, whose name no one knows, so they named him Mr. Sommer. A strange pedestrian capable of doing, well, walking, walking and walking until it seems that he can no longer do it, and then continue walking.
This is how their days go by. The Story of Mr. Sommer is a short story written by Patrick Süskind and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempéen 1991. The style used by Suskind and Sempé's illustrations give the tale a childish and naive appearance.
Despite this, it is more than a juvenile tale, since the protagonist considers things that are too deep for a child of his age, and the anguish with which the mysterious Mr. Sommer lives is also shown.
The story is narrated in the first person by the protagonist of the book, whose name is never known, and who as an adult remembers his childhood experiences and his memories of Mr. Sommer.
