Parfums
a catalog of remembered smells
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Author
Contributions
- Cameron, Euan, translator - Contributor
Publication
2014 - MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
43,250 words, Guess
Page Count
173 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveparfumscatalogof0000clau
- ISBN-100857052721
- ISBN-139780857052728
- Library of Congress Control Number2014471117
- OCLC Control Number885445300
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL31273918M
Classifications
- DDC944.38083092
- LCCPQ2663.L31148 P3613 2014
- LCCPQ2663.L31148 P3713 2014
and 1 more
- LCCPQ2663.L31148 Z4613 2014
Description
Philippe Claudel's highly original new book is an autobiographical evocation - one might even call it an olfactory memoir - of his beloved pays natal in Lorraine, where he has lived all his life. Sixty-three brief essays conjure up the distillation of the fragrances or scents associated with his childhood and adolescence, and which evoke a forgotten world: acacia, mist, coal, the swimming pool, his mother's sun cream lotion, the cemetery, churches, first love, fried bacon, Gauloises and Gitanes, a sleeping child, communal showers, hay, cinnamon, his uncle's pullover, amidst countless other scattered perfumes that have shaped his life. They are smells that may have enchanted him, uplifted him or troubled him, leaving their mark on the sensibilities of this celebrated film maker and novelist.
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