...Charles Baudelaire; Grover Amen Copyright © 2010 The Trustees of Columbia University 2010 EXOTIC PERFUME My eyes are closed; it is a warm evening of autumn. Silently I breathe the perfume of your breasts. Glistening shores stretch out before me, their sands burn like fire under an eternal sun...

... or dying, cannot be devoid of smell. Indeed, in Patrick Siiskind's wonderful novel Perfume, the central character, Grenouille, is shunned by all precisely because he has no smell. As a baby, he is dumped at a monastery, suspected of being possessed by the devil. Other children, explains his wet nurse...

... relational mots-themes for Les Fleurs du mal. 436 ROLAND A. CHAMPAGNE process that transgresses the boundaries of apprehension, as in the poem "Tout entiere" wherein "The perfume of the woman's breath creates musical harmony, and in the music of her voice a perfume can be sensed" (Dal Molin 88). In fact, all...

... immediately adds to this first bilingualism a second one, that between the municipal vernacular and the illustrious vernacular, which he compares to a perfumed panther “whose scent is left everywhere but which is nowhere to be seen” (1.16.1). This intimate diglossia of poetry in dialect appears...

... neither a curator nor a sound artist nor a perfumer, and what I will propose here is less sensational, but hopefully more feasible, than distilling the Bordeaux copy of Montaigne’s Essais into a signature scent. From my vantage point as an early-career literary scholar working on the aural cultures...

..., and there the smell of wine and of meats mixed together brought a disagreeable perfume to the nose). He encounters this smelly, dirty place only a few lines after he has mocked the hermaphrodites for their cleanliness and their nicely scented water. The meal itself is framed by the hygienic practice...

...), the horticultural monstrosities of A Rebours give way to the symbolic specimens discussed in La Cathedra/e. Jewels, flowers, perfumes -once mute and ambiguous things -- display a new prolixity, acquire a clearer significance for the believer schooled in "l'idiome des symboles" ("Preface ecrite vingt ans apres Ie...

... are discussed by Patricia Grau-Dieckmann, "Los perfumes en el Cristianismo," Revista Mirabilia!J 3, which is available on-line at httpwww.revistamirabilia.com/Numeros/ N um3/artigos/art5 .htm. 16. I echo just three of the terms given prominence by Edward Said in his history and critique of Orientalism. See...

..., allongee face au couloir, dans Ie solei!" (8). Several elements converge to impart to Duras' text its distinct perfume of scandal: firstly, the heroine arrives from another world; secondly, her role is sacrificial; thirdly, she embodies a law that remains largely unarticulated; and finally, she interposes...

... as possible: "Va (respondit Panurge) fol enraige, au diable. [ ] A trente diables soit Ie coqu, cornu, marrane, sorcier au diable, enchanteur de l'Antichrist! Vray Dieu! comment il m'a perfume de fascherie et diablerie, de charme et de sorcellerie! Le Diable Ie puisse emporter!" (465). Lucifer ("enchanteur de...

... past as artisans, he defines what is, for him, with dead leaves of poplar trees, the perfume of Autumn itself (Gracq, Lettrines II. in CEuvres completes, volume II, p. 261). As a writer, Gracq has carried on his family's craft, but not with hemp, with words and life experience. He states: aUn ouvrage...

... to Flora and a group of women, Tristan family members and nuns, gathered in the convent of Santa Catalina. Far less strict than Dominga's convent, Santa Catalina is both a closed space and a wholly feminine place of elegance and gaiety, perfumed with voluptuous odors. For the secret telling, the women have...

...), Tristan declares. Viewing orange trees living alongside a collection of European flowers, she can, momentarily at least, mistake her location for an ameliorated paradise, a New World that harbors beautifully perfumed "souvenirs de la patrie" (629). It is only at the end of her description, when Tristan...

... rebellion against the divine, violence and oppression tied to religion, and the most Spanish characteristics of all: disillusionment, decay, and the tragic sentiment of life. 5 España es el símbolo del desierto inclemente del alma, de la desolación con perfume divino, de los fervores máximos del...