A phenomenon … Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume, which will remain unique in contemporary literature’ Figaro’An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy’ Daily Telegraph’Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing’ ObserverPatrick S skind was born near Munich, in 1949. ”An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution’ Guardian’A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity … Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading’ Literary Review’A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay … a remarkable debut’ Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review’Unlike anything else one has read. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history- to the fleeting realm of scent. Through my research, I will draw parallels between these writers with respect to their literary work as well as the impact of both their personal lives and the world's they inhabit to affirm that it is the artist's pragmatophobic impulse that can create Utopia and Hades simultaneously.Patrick S skind’s Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris’In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. And also through W.Somerset Maugham's 'The Moon and Six pence' the research will closely focus on the monstrous psyche of an artist that has the tendency to contain a devastating proclivity.

Drawing upon the close reading of Patrick Suskind's novel 'Perfume', this paper will try to understand the dilemma of an artist's struggle to fit into the real world. The paper deeply studies the psychological change that an artist undergoes, keeping in mind the concept of 'Pragmatophobia'. This paper therefore, heavily focuses on by virtue of what an artist transfigures into a living Frankenstein.

An artist, be it a painter, an author or a poet has an ability to encapsulate the darkest and most twisted depths of human psyche within his work of art, leaving a profound impact on the periphery of the society. The purpose of this research is to identify an artist's pseudo prototypical side.

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