On Love and Death

Patrick Suskind

Text Publishing, 2007 - Literary Collections - 90 pages

In this inspiring meditation, Patrick S|skind considers the two great forces of human existence. He draws on scenes as varied as a young couple having oral sex while stuck in traffic, and an elderly Thomas Mann tumbling back into forbidden love. S|skind then dazzles as he writes about Orpheus and Jesus, comparing their very different stories of death conquered through love.

About the author

Patrick Suskind was born in 1949. He studied history in Munich and was a writer for television before he wrote Perfume. His second novel, The Pidgeon, later adapted as a play, was first staged at teh BAC Theater in London in May 1993. His play The Double Basswas first staged in Munich in 1981 and has since become one of the most performed plays in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. It has also been performed at the Edinburgh Festival and at the Royal National Theatre in London. His novella The Story of Mr Sommer(1992) has, like Perfume, been a huge success all over the world, and his Three Stories and a Reflectionwas published in 1996. Patrick Suskind lives in Munich.

Bibliographic information

• Title: On Love and Death
• Author: Patrick Suskind
• Translated by: Anthea Bell
• Publisher: Text Publishing, 2007
• ISBN: 1921351055, 9781921351051
• Length: 90 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / Gothic & Romance; Philosophy / General