Re: Perfume Re: RE : RARA-AVIS: Gilles de Rais and Bloch

From: Jeff Vorzimmer ( jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com)
Date: 11 Feb 2008


I read it when it first came out in the US and loved it. The author is German, actually.

Jeff

---- sonny < sforstater@yahoo.com> wrote:
> has anyone read Perfume by Patrick Susskind? i have not, but am interested
> in what those who have thought of it.
>
> i know the original book is in French, as the author is French, but i am
> interested in the english translation.
>
> is it based on fact?
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> --- Fabienne soldini < fabsoldini@yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> > I don't heard about a refutation of the storie of Gilles de Rais. He was
> > execed for the murders he comitted and the historians said there were a
> > lot of children bodies and torture instruments in his castle.
> > "Concerto pour l'étrangleur" that I've transated by "Concerto for a
> > strangler" is Woolrich novel. It's about a man who kills his victims by
> > strangulation. One chapter for one murder till the end where the reader
> > discovers who is that myterious strangler.
> >
> > Fabienne
> >
> > uri.nummelin@pp.inet.fi> a écrit :
> > Haven't the stories about Gilles de Rais been refuted by
> > recent historians?
> > I remember reading that it's been said that the stories were invented
> > because some people wanted him to look bad. (And he certainly did,
> > didn't
> > he?)
> >
> > Robert Bloch is a noir writer, in my mind, and he even makes fun of the
> > shadowy effects of many noir films in THE SCARF, which some think is
> > better
> > than PSYCHO. Bloch wrote about Ed Gein in an intro in a book whose title
> > I
> > forget, but it was reprinted in MURDER PLUS, a late eighties anthology
> > of
> > true crime writing.
> >
> > I think Fabianne means CONCERTO FOR A DEAD BEAT. That's also a noirish
> > crime
> > novel, albeit not one of Bloch's best.
> >
> > Juri
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