On Love and DeathIn On Love and Death Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex in a traffic jam, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love at an advanced age, and as mythical as the stories of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus. |
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User Review - oldman - LibraryThingA short book about what love is and the not-so-painful interaction between love and death. Three small vingettes are used to illustrate his ideas. The author then moves on to love and death and that ... Read full review
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User Review - Lauren Smith - GoodreadsA very short book of Suskind's musings on love and its relation to death, with some interesting insights for his famous novel Perfume (and possibly some of his others as well - I have yet to read them). Read the full review on my blog Violin in a Void Read full review
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