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Norman Reppingen wrote:
>Eric Kisch wrote:
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>>The relationship between music and scent - a fascinating topic. And
>>not too far off-topic, I hope is a recommendation for Patrick Susskind's
>>Perfume: the story of a murderer. This is all about the world of scent.
>>A totally transforming book.
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>I hope it is well translated, the kind of language in the original
>is marvellous, and ideal to engage another bridge.
>Not smell to sound, not vice versa, but written words to feelings.
Susskind's "Le Parfum" is hauntingly scented in French too. Terrifying.
On a similar, more musical line, Bernard Mac Laverty's "Grace Notes"
captures sounds. It is about a young composer fighting to find balance in
her personal life and in her art. It is difficult to admit that one cannot
really hear her music. My head was full of it. Grace notes, notes between
notes, notes between words, and in counterpoint to words.
Another bridge?
Christine Labroche
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