The Pigeon
Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pigeon" is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding...
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Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pigeon" is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will be just like any other, he encounters not the desired empty hallway but an unwelcome, diabolical intruder...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140105834 (0140105832)
Publish date: June 29th 1989
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
La sorte ha ferito e deluso intimamente Jonathan Noel, l’ha fatto sentire ridicolo, inadeguato. Temendo di esporsi alla derisione dei suoi simili, Jonathan s’è allontanato da loro, evitando così ogni tipo di contatto. La camera che aveva affittato, e che sta per diventare sua, è il microcosmo che l...
I will never be able to look at a pigeon the same way again. After reading this book a pigeon will always be associated with chaos, loss of identity and anxiety. A pigeon will remain the symbol of paranoia. That is how convincing Süskind writes.This very short book (or novella?) explores what happen...
‘At the time the pigeon affair overtook him, unhinging his life from one day to the next, Jonathan Noel, already past fifty, could look back over a good twenty-year period of total uneventfulness and would never have expected anything of importance could ever overtake him again – other than death s...
a flawless if unlovable little novel. i loved it.
Süskind y sus descripciones, las apruebo.
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