French Air
John Sutherland, 12 November 1987
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination
by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan.
Berg, 307 pp., £18, November 1986,0 907582 47 8 Show More
by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan.
Berg, 307 pp., £18, November 1986,
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind, translated by John Woods.
Penguin, 263 pp., £3.95, September 1987,0 14 009244 7 Show More
by Patrick Süskind, translated by John Woods.
Penguin, 263 pp., £3.95, September 1987,
The Double Bass
by Patrick Süskind, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Hamish Hamilton, 57 pp., £8.95, September 1987,9780241120392 Show More
by Patrick Süskind, translated by Michael Hofmann.
Hamish Hamilton, 57 pp., £8.95, September 1987,
“... the only full-length novel devoted to olfaction originates, like A Rebours, in an alien culture. Patrick Süskind’s Perfume was translated from the original German and published in Britain and America in 1986. The novel (originally put out in hardback by Hamish Hamilton) neatly partners Corbin’s The Foul and the Fragrant. Set in pre-Revolution ... ”
