![]() ![]() I've read it couple of mounts ago and loved it! ![]() My interpretation of his (granted: wretched and twisted) quest for the perfect smell is that he wants to be loved - and in a way he succeeds, doesn't he? When the book ends and he opens the phial of his 'master piece' the people around are so overcome by love and desire that they literally devour him. So apparently, even though everyone he meets instinctively loathes him he still needs the company of other human beings. The main character (what's his name again? Grenouille? My memory resembles a sieve when it comes to names) isn't loved from the day he's born - actually through no fault of his own: after all, how can he help it that he doesn't have a smell of his own? Afterwards he is exploited and abused by his subsequent masters, and his retreat into isolation doesn't last either. My idea is that the primitive desire you refer to is rather the (universal) desire to be liked and loved. ![]() I read this a couple of years ago and don't have it around know so I'm not sure of the details but I do remember vividly that I liked the book a lot. ![]()
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