Murderous Visions of Relativity In the Novels Das Parfum and Oceano mare

Social rites attempt to fill in the bodily gaps left by death. The aesthetic rituals of the novels Das Parfum (1985) by Patrick Süskind and Oceano mare (1993) by Alessandro Baricco come to terms with death in representations of murder which convey a relativist conception of being as presence, based...

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Main Author: Mattia Marino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2010-11-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/699