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A romanian funny tale
18:00 Nov 26 2007
Times Read: 993


Tale with a Piglet



A gypsy man and a Romanian went to a fair one fine day to buy a piglet together. Afterwards the gypsy man said, "Now that we have the piglet, how shall we share it?" The gypsyman, however, was only thinking of how to trick the Romanian.



"Well, what do you think we should do," the Romanian asked.



At that moment the gypsy man answered, "My idea is to fry the piglet and then have us take a nap. The one who dreams the nicer dream shall be the one to eat it." The Romanian agreed. They fried the piglet and after that they went to sleep. The gypsy man didn't sleep because he was thinking of a story to tell. At the same time the Romanian could not sleep as well, for he suspected that the gypsy man was planning to trick him. Finally after thinking too much, the gypsy man fell asleep. Seeing this the Romanian quietly arose from his bed, ate the piglet and just as quietly slipped back into his bed. The gypsy man did not know what had happened.



In the morning, after they woke up, the Romanian asked the gypsy man, "What did you dream?"



"Well, I dreamed that I was in a beautiful field with many, many flowers. While I was walking there I saw a tall, tall ladder that reached the sky. I climbed up the ladder and in the sky I saw a house, and guess who was there that God and his Wife. They were seated around a table. That God said to his Wife, 'Ask that gypsy man to join us for dinner.' Then I went to their table and ate a lot. Isn't that a nice dream?"



"Very nice."



"And you, what did you dream?"



"Well, it was something like your dream. It had a beautiful field with flowers, a ladder which I climbed and then I saw that same God sitting at the table. That God told his Wife, 'Send that Romanian to eat the piglet, for the gypsy man is eating with us!'



"What did you do?" the gypsy asked nervously.



"I ate it of course." The Romanian said patting his stomach.

The Perfume
16:53 Nov 05 2007
Times Read: 1,002

The book "The Perfume"(1985) is one of the best Patrik Suskind books and one of my favorite books!Curt Cobain`s favorite too LOL ("Scentless Apprentice" from In Utero was inspired from the book)!

Also it was a source of inspiration for the song "Herr Spiegelmann"(see "Irreligious" album) wich has an excerpt from the book:

"Everyone considered the man in the blue jacket

as the most beautiful human being they have ever seen:

nuns saw on him the Messiah in flesh;

Satan's adorers the lustrous Prince of Darkness;

philosophers the Supreme Being;

young females an enchanted prince;

Men an ideal reflection of themselves".

Rammstein was also inspiring from the Suskind`s book in creating "Du riechst so gut"(You smell so good).



Buy it, don`t rent it!It definitely worth!

The cover shows a detail from a painting

by Antoine Watteau (1684–1721),

Nymphe and Satyr or Jupiter and Atiope (1714)







The book is superior to the movie("Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" 2006 directed by Tom Tykwer) and I strongly recomand to read the book first and only then see the movie.After all, Stanley Kubrick claimed the book was unfilmable!

The movie is not bad at all though and have a great music.











The film's producer, Bernd Eichinger, the man behind the controversial Hitler film Downfall, said the film aims to bring smell to celluloid by imitating the author's attention to detail. "While Süskind used the clear and exact power of words, we use the power of image, noise and music," he said. "When filming a lawn in sunlight, or even a single tree, all that is needed is absolute optical precision and then smells are created."

Meanwhile, Die Zeit weekly ridiculed the film as "big nose theatre", saying it rather obviously tried to convey smell through close-up shots of the protagonist's nose - of which there were no less than 27.







Here is some info about Suskind himself token from the online "Literary Encyclopedia"



"Born in Ambach, Germany on 26 March 1949, Süskind is the oldest son of Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, a journalist known for his essays on language, published under the title Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen [From the Dictionary of a Barbarian]. From 1968 to 1974 Süskind studied history at the universities of Munich and Aix-en-Provence, France. While in southern France, he gathered material for Das Parfüm. After the unexpected successes of Der Kontrabass and Das Parfüm, which thrust Süskind suddenly into the limelight, he has shunned publicity. Awarded the prize for best first novel by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in 1986, he declined it, saying that he would not accept awards for his writing. Little is known about his private life. He refuses to grant interviews or make public appearances. He has residences in Munich, Paris, and Montolieu, France.



A literary hermit who rarely comments on his creative process, Süskind is a postmodern Diogenes. Changing voice and genre with each successive publication, his authorial persona is as elusive as the man himself. Like their author, his protagonists are usually reclusive and misanthropic outsiders who withdraw from public life yet still harbor secret desires for love and acceptance. As parabolic mirror of the postmodern condition, Süskind’s stories appeal to both a mass readership hungry for traditional narrative fiction and to intellectuals and scholars who detect in his writings playful revisions of important philosophical and psychological problems."