With the Aid of a Lorgnette
Frank Kermode, 28 April 1994
The Lure of the Sea
by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps.
Polity, 380 pp., £35, January 1994,0 7456 0732 2 Show More
by Alain Corbin, translated by Jocelyn Phelps.
Polity, 380 pp., £35, January 1994,
The Foul and the Fragrant: Odour and the French Social Imagination
by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan.
Picador, 307 pp., £6.99, March 1994,0 330 32930 8 Show More
by Alain Corbin, translated by Miriam Kochan.
Picador, 307 pp., £6.99, March 1994,
“... not so made that ‘sweet effluvia darting through the brain’ could cause them to ‘die of a rose in aromatic pain’, but the advance of civilisation was proving him naive. However, the main impulse in this modified smell discourse (as one might now be encouraged to put it) was towards the practice of deodorisation, both of the body and the city. As to ... ”