To be entirely honest I still haven't decided whether I loved the book or hated it. It is an epic tale about the journey of Jean Baptiste Grenouille , the most gifted and abominable personage in the 18th century France , when all the streets, marketplaces and atmosphere smelled fiendishly with the effluvia and putrefying vapors from sewers, decaying life and stale animal droppings! And the repetitive prose and unfocused paragraphs had me skimming the odd page here and there. Antoine Watteau detail from " Jupiter and Antiope ", —16 [1]. Author 2 books 4, followers.
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