On Love and Death
by Patrick Süskind, Anthea Bell (Translator)
ISBN-10: 158567950X
ISBN-13: 9781585679508
$8.95
Book Specs
Binding
Perfect
Publisher
Overlook / Rookery Trade Paperback
Published on
Nov 28, 2006
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
4.88x0.25x6.87 Inches
Weight
0.15 Pounds
About the Book
In On Love and Death Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex in a traffic jam, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love at an advanced age, and as mythical as the stories of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus.