By co-opting the style and tropes of the Romantics and applying them to an ironic magical realism story, Süskind created a postmodern text liberated from the delusion of originality.
Brianna Di Monda
BRIANNA DI MONDA received her B.A. in French and comparative literature from Oberlin College. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The Summerset Review, The Cleveland Review, Thin Air, 25YL, and Flaunt Magazine, among others. She was nominated for the 2021 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.
Sellouts 1985: Patrick Süskind’s Perfume
The Beautiful Myth of All Our Face Time
by Brianna Di Monda
Once a woman gets her audience, she learns that what is generic is replaceable. She is made to feel her qualities are not unique. But without them, she would be invisible. She would never have gained seventy-eight million followers.
George Saunders on A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by Brianna Di Monda
There’ve been plenty of books on craft published by acclaimed writers before A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, but none have been infused with such belief in the capacity of fiction to change its readers, such revelation of the tricks of the craft, or such empathy for future writers. George Saunders has been […]
