by Patrick Süskind
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.
It's funny how I can read a murder mistery calmly yet gripped by suspense reading about a man's meeting with a pigeon. This book is good. With or without plot, despite or because its shortness this book is worth every second I spent reading it. After double wham of Das Parfum and this I can see myse...
bath readA novella from the author of Perfume mimicking Kafka mimicking Camus. Absurd indeed and could cause mass hysteric aversion to pigeons and the homeless.
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