Compare And Contrast Perfume And Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

The memorable impact of novels and short stories arise from the careful and often brilliant creation of detail by the writers. The purpose of this essay is to explore the role and impact of a few significant details in the novels Perfume by Patrick Suskind and Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both works encompass a handful of similar descriptive details. An example of a descriptive detail shared amongst both works would be the sense of smell. Another example of both of the author’s use of descriptive details could be found in the ways the authors describe the events leading up to the final event.
To start with, Suskind uses a profound use of imagery to convey the smell in
Perfume. By this I mean that the author’s