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The Story of Mr Sommer (Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer) is a novella in German by Patrick Süskind, published in 1991, dealing with memories of childhood in a village in Germany. The book was illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé.
26 ott 2010 · The story of Mr Sommer. by. Süskind, Patrick, 1949-; Sempé, 1932-. Publication date. 2003. Topics. Compulsive behavior. Publisher. London : Bloomsbury.
Patrick Süskind. A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer.
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His writing of the story (focussing on his own childhood experiences and pushing Sommer to the periphery) becomes some sort of expiation or catharsis - a futile attempt to absolve himself and find his own peace - which is, ultimately, unattainable.
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21 set 2008 · The Story Of Mr Sommer features a short string of remembered scenes that come together to show the foibles of growing up. Here we have the first stirrings of love with a classmate (“I could have gone on looking at that face for ever, and I did look at it whenever I could, in lessons or during break.
Bloomsbury, 2003 - Fiction - 128 pages. A boy finds a peaceful village life disturbed by the frequent sight of the eccentric Mr Sommer. From early in the morning till late at night, Mr...
