Metáfora, sinestesia y otras figuras retóricas en El perfume. Historia de un asesino, de P. Süskind

摘要

This article questions the author’s intention in the so frequent use of metaphorsand other rhetorical figures in Perfume. History of a Murderer. This novel is a landmark inthe German narrative of the XXth Century, due to the originality in the plot and to the greatload of poetic images. Along with hyperbole, litotes, parallelism, personification, metonymy,comparison, polysindeton, and other figures, we will observe that it emphasizes metaphor,particularly literary synaesthesia. Within synaesthesia we will analyse the mixtures of sensesand will classify the metaphors in their corresponding semantic fields. Finally, we analysewhether the use of such a number of tropes makes this work similar to some other literarytendencies within the universal narrative of the XXth century, and whether Süskind’s poeticand sensorial narrative might be included in any literary trend of the XXth century