Parfums: A Catalogue of Remembered Smells - Hardcover

Claudel, Philippe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857052721 ISBN 13: 9780857052728

Publisher: MacLehose Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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Parfums

Review:

A modern masterpiece - Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph Exquisite - Allan Massie, Scotsman Claudel is a novelist of ideas - Ruth Scurr, The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: MacLehose Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0857052721
• ISBN 13: 9780857052728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176