![]() ![]() ![]() A film version was released in 2006, and the lyrics to "Scentless Apprentice," written by Kurt Cobain for his band Nirvana, were derived from the story. ![]() ![]() It certainly has had great popular appeal beyond the literary intelligentsia (Adams, "Das Parfüm"), having been translated into twenty-five languages and selling millions of copies. This novel has been cited as one of the most-read German novels since Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Sympathy for Grenouille (except for his childhood) would be difficult to elicit in the reader, so the numerous divisions enhance this lack of sympathy and make one's feeling of horror at the unnatural personality of Grenouille more extreme. This is just as well for so repulsive a main character. This unusual arrangement creates an episodic feel for the story of Grenouille, and it distances the reader from the protagonist in a way that longer divisions would not. Some of these small divisions are under two pages long. The 51 chapters of the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (1985) are unorthodox in that, while they are of varying lengths, most of them are very short. ![]()
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