Parfém: příběh vraha - CDmp3 (čte Jaromír Meduna)

He has the finest nose in the world. Can he sense what he so painfully lacks? Listen to the tale of a rococo psychopath who gave the term "mass murder" a new, cosmetic dimension. The monster Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born in the stinking fish market of 18th-century Paris, and from an early age, the world did not coddle him. An orphaned and hunchbacked little man became a tanner's apprentice, who was mercilessly beaten by his master, but the divine gift – the ability to unmistakably recognize all the smells and scents of the world – could not be beaten out of him. And since Jean-Baptiste is obsessed with the desire to develop his talent into unimagined spheres, he sneaks into the workshop of the failing perfumer Baldini, sniffs the secrets of the trade, and applies them in a form that horrifies his contemporaries… Patrick Süskind's symbolic horror about the peculiar nature of love for one's neighbor undermines the Enlightenment belief that man is fundamentally good. It is not clothes, but scents that make a person – but what does the one smell like who finds everything human foreign? The novel was adapted into a film by Tom Tykwer, starring Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, and Alan Rickman. Duration of the recording: 10 hours 37 minutes. Narrated by: Jaromír Meduna.