Parfums. Der Duft meiner Kindheit, englische Ausgabe

Autor*innen

• Philippe Claudel

Parameter

• 176 Seiten
• 7 Lesestunden

• Autobiografien und Memoiren
• Biografien
• Frankreich
• Sachliteratur
• Schule

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From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the anodyne void of disinfectant and death, this is a decadently original olfactory memoir. In sixty-three elusive episodes we roam freely across the countryside of Lorraine, North-East France, from kitchen to farm to a lover's bed. Recognising the bittersweet nostalgia of a scent that slips away on the summer breeze, Claudel demonstrates again his impeccable grasp of the personal and the universal, interweaved with a rare, self-deprecating charm. This is an evocative patchwork at once earthy and ethereal, erotic and heart-breaking. Claudel permits us a glimpse of moments that have driven him to delight or despair, creating through the fading aromas of the past fragments of humour, insight and quite intangible beauty.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback