Has anyone read Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer need essay: When Grenouille emerges from his self-imposed seven-year exile

When Grenouille emerges from his self-imposed seven-year exile, he is brought to the attention of the marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse, whose theory that “life could develop only at a certain distance from the earth, since the earth itself constantly emits a corrupting gas, a so-called fluidum letale, which lames vital energies and sooner or later totally extinguishes them” [pp. 139 – 140] seems to explain Grenouille’s sad condition. This theory also contends that all living creatures therefore “endeavor to distance themselves from the earth by growing” upwards and away from the earth [p. 140]. What attitudes and beliefs is Süskind satirizing through the character of Taillade-Espinasse?