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Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, The Pigeon is Patrick Süskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling Perfume. The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his..more
Published June 29th 1989 by Penguin (first published March 1987)
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Sargent PepaIt's a little like Kafka, but if you liked Perfume, I think you would like this one. Also it's very short, and you'll soon find if it's for you or if…moreIt's a little like Kafka, but if you liked Perfume, I think you would like this one. Also it's very short, and you'll soon find if it's for you or if it isn't.(less)
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Oct 04, 2010Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 1001-book, novel, german, fiction, short-stories, european, classic, 20th-century, literature
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The Pigeon (German: Die Taube) is a novella by Patrick Süskind about the fictional character Jonathan Noel, a solitary Parisian bank security guard who undergoes an existential crisis when a pigeon roosts in front of his one-room apartment's door, prohibiting him entrance to his private sanctuary. The story takes place in the span of one day, and follows how this seemingly insignificant event compounds to threaten Noel's sanity. The titular pigeon can..more
The Pigeon (German: Die Taube) is a novella by Patrick Süskind about the fictional character Jonathan Noel, a solitary Parisian bank security guard who undergoes an existential crisis when a pigeon roosts in front of his one-room apartment's door, prohibiting him entrance to his private sanctuary. The story takes place in the span of one day, and follows how this seemingly insignificant event compounds to threaten Noel's sanity. The titular pigeon can..more
Feb 23, 2018BlackOxford rated it really liked it
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“He was not a man of action. He was a man of resignation.” And consequently, he was also a man of strict routine, of rigid habit, of acute sensitivity to any deviation from the expected. Suskind’s anti-protagonist is also emotional; he suffers anger and fear, and resentments.
But these emotions are provoked only by events, mostly trivial except to him, not by memory or positive desire of any sort. He wants nothing other than what he has, especially when the little he has i..more
Jun 30, 2017Luís C. rated it really liked it · review of another edition“He was not a man of action. He was a man of resignation.” And consequently, he was also a man of strict routine, of rigid habit, of acute sensitivity to any deviation from the expected. Suskind’s anti-protagonist is also emotional; he suffers anger and fear, and resentments.
But these emotions are provoked only by events, mostly trivial except to him, not by memory or positive desire of any sort. He wants nothing other than what he has, especially when the little he has i..more
Shelves: presenca, 20th-century, germany, 1001-done, reading-the-world
Very special, strange, offbeat and absurd, novel in which a man quickly saw a midlife crisis.. Not that famous episode of 'midlife crisis', not a crisis related to the meeting with a common bird. This story is actually based on the panic of a man in his fifties ordinary, routine and taciturn, who is faced with the presence of a pigeon in the corridor leading to his room. The action of the book takes place over a very short period, during which the author indulges in a psychological study of his..more
Mar 24, 2012Michael Fierce rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: cultural-france, poe-influenced, fantasy, cover-love, classics, magritte-tribute-cover, kafkaesque
A simple tale in novella form about Jonathan Noel, a man living in France who suffers from a neurosis that makes him afraid of breaking away from his habitual lifestyle, and who never mingles with others, unless it is absolutely necessary.
Once his routine is broken up by the seemingly harmless appearance of a pigeon outside his apartment door, he nearly breaks down completely.
Some people see red. Jonathan Noel sees pigeons
Though an inferior work to his masterpiece, Perfume: The Story of a Murd..more
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‘At the time the pigeon affair overtook him, unhinging his life from one day to the next, Jonathan Noel, already past fifty, could look back over a good twenty-year period of total uneventfulness and would never have expected anything of importance could ever overtake him again – other than death some day.’
‘The Pigeon’ is an incredibly short story detailing a day (albeit a rather momentous day) in the life of Jonathan Noel. Jonathan leads a secluded and private life as a bank security guard in P..more
‘The Pigeon’ is an incredibly short story detailing a day (albeit a rather momentous day) in the life of Jonathan Noel. Jonathan leads a secluded and private life as a bank security guard in P..more
Apr 08, 2018Maria Espadinha rated it really liked it
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Jonathan is a NO man -- no friends, no family, no pets, .. no nothing!
His tomorrows are replicas of yesterdays, turning his life into a long, boring, monotonous kind of tune..
Until that fatal pigeon day!
The moment he set eyes on that infamous pigeon in the corridor, chaos popped in!
His shelter was no longer safe -- it was imperious to leave it behind, fast and furiously!
And so, assaulted by an emotional turmoil, he fled!..
However, the unknown was out there, waiting in..more
May 04, 2011K.D. Absolutely rated it really liked it · review of another editionJonathan is a NO man -- no friends, no family, no pets, .. no nothing!
His tomorrows are replicas of yesterdays, turning his life into a long, boring, monotonous kind of tune..
Until that fatal pigeon day!
The moment he set eyes on that infamous pigeon in the corridor, chaos popped in!
His shelter was no longer safe -- it was imperious to leave it behind, fast and furiously!
And so, assaulted by an emotional turmoil, he fled!..
However, the unknown was out there, waiting in..more
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Jonathan Noel and his sister were abandoned by their parents when they were small so a distant uncle, who they met for the first time, brought them up. During the war, his uncle hid them in the forest. When he was old enough, he joined the army and fought in Indochina. Then he came back, found that his sister has married and left without telling him. He married a pregnant girl who later abandoned him and ran away with her Tunisian lover.
'..he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on..more
'..he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on..more
Dec 07, 2015Jim Fonseca rated it liked it
A late middle-aged bank guard is startled by a pigeon in the hallway of his dumpy rooming house. We are told in the story that the pigeon is the epitome of chaos and anarchy. This leads to a chain of events where he first becomes introspective and then disillusioned about his whole life. We assume he is Jewish because the only early memories he has are of his mother and father disappearing and of being shuffled among distant relations to be hidden. After a bad marriage that lasted only a few mon..more
Apr 01, 2008Julia rated it it was amazing Shelves: fiction, psychological
For fans of Kafka, this one is for you. It's written in deceptively simply language and full of paranoia and self-loathing. The main character seems at first forgettable but quickly descends into a personal and claustrophobic hell.
I'm not fully sure why this was the perfect book for the moment, but I was completely absorbed. This book is perfect for waiting at the airport or any impersonal place where you feel alone.
I'm not fully sure why this was the perfect book for the moment, but I was completely absorbed. This book is perfect for waiting at the airport or any impersonal place where you feel alone.
Jul 19, 2014howl of minerva rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A perfect little novella in the line of Kafka, the Melville of Bartleby and the Sartre of Nausea. A psychologically acute and beautifully written account of a sudden disworlding and alienation from alienation, all from the wing-beats of a dove..
Jonathan Noel is a French bank guard who, for decades, has lived a very orderly and timid, almost non-existence which is one day shattered when a pigeon appears in his apartment building’s hallway. Patrick Suskind’s novella takes the reader through a day in this quiet man’s life as his mind unravels…
I really liked Suskind’s Perfume but his follow-up, The Pigeon, is underwhelming. Comparisons to Kafka and Poe are a bit much but this is still a well-written story even if it’s not the most gripping..more
I really liked Suskind’s Perfume but his follow-up, The Pigeon, is underwhelming. Comparisons to Kafka and Poe are a bit much but this is still a well-written story even if it’s not the most gripping..more
Sep 09, 2019Lee Klein rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Flowing, quick, moving short novel about a man who sought and achieved solitude and stability after being abandoned by his parents (who were sent to Nazi camps) and later his wife, living in an 81-square-foot room in Paris, working as a guard standing outside a bank his entire career, until one day he emerges from the shared bathroom down the hall from his room and sees a pigeon and pretty much loses his shit, becomes self-doubtful, confrontational, self-conscious, distracted, questions every pr..more
another beautiful existential french novel
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Oct 29, 2017তানজীম Rahman) rated it really liked it
The book can be read as a kind of anti-life manual. Instructions on how-not-to-live. We all often fret over things that are miniscule, let them ruin our days; let them take over our thoughts completely. We frequently don’t realize the things are minor because we are too close to them, too invested. In this book, Suskind creates a necessary distance between the person and the events, so that their minor nature can become clearer. This is what you do, he tells us. Please don’t do that, he asks. He..more
The Pigeon ~ Patrick Süskind
The Pigeon is a strange little tale in many ways. In only 77 pages Süskind gives you a rather unusual and momentous day in the life of Jonathan Noel.
In the first five pages you have pretty much been given his life story. After a rocky childhood as a result of World War II, Jonathan Noel had a good thirty years of mundane existence. He has been renting a room for that time and even though he does not even have a private bathroom he has decided to buy it. He works as do..more
The Pigeon is a strange little tale in many ways. In only 77 pages Süskind gives you a rather unusual and momentous day in the life of Jonathan Noel.
In the first five pages you have pretty much been given his life story. After a rocky childhood as a result of World War II, Jonathan Noel had a good thirty years of mundane existence. He has been renting a room for that time and even though he does not even have a private bathroom he has decided to buy it. He works as do..more
This is a short work, 77 pages long, and using largish type. It is by the author of the brilliant novel 'Perfume', and just as in that novel the author allows the reader to enter almost seamlessly and painlessly into the mind of an obsessive psychotic murderer, here the author eases us into the mind of a psychologically damaged individual. In both cases, we can say that we as readers have experienced what it must be like to be the central character. The origin of the psychological damage is not..more
(a part i liked - SPOILER ALERT kind of)
The force turned him into stone. Indeed, over these long hours, it had transformed him into the impotent, menacing form of a sphinx. It was something like the electrical tension that magnetises a lump of iron and holds it suspended, or the powerful strenth in the vault of an edifice that grips each individual stone firmly in its spell. It was subjunctive. Its whole potential rested in 'I would, I could, most of all I'd like to', and as he formulated these..more
The force turned him into stone. Indeed, over these long hours, it had transformed him into the impotent, menacing form of a sphinx. It was something like the electrical tension that magnetises a lump of iron and holds it suspended, or the powerful strenth in the vault of an edifice that grips each individual stone firmly in its spell. It was subjunctive. Its whole potential rested in 'I would, I could, most of all I'd like to', and as he formulated these..more
Jul 16, 2011Kingfan30 rated it liked it
This is why I love the 1001 list, I would probably never have picked this book up otherwise along with many others. The name is a bit deceiving as it is not really about a pigeon, it is about the way Jonathans day is effected following a chance meeting with a pigeon in the morning. To decide to stay on a hotel rather than go back home seemed a bit extreme, although I have changed to the spare room before because there was a spider in mine, I guess phobias are funny things! His early life is summ..more
Jul 07, 2014Daniel rated it really liked it · review of another edition
First, a huge thank you to Jacob, who sent me a spare copy of this lovely novella.
Suskind throws an obsessive, habit-bound man into a silly situation that sparks an existential crisis. 'Pigeon' read like a 19th century novel of similar ilk, such as 'Notes from the Underground.' I appreciate this kind of literary technique, and I love Suskind's prose. If he ever writes another novel, I will read it.
Suskind throws an obsessive, habit-bound man into a silly situation that sparks an existential crisis. 'Pigeon' read like a 19th century novel of similar ilk, such as 'Notes from the Underground.' I appreciate this kind of literary technique, and I love Suskind's prose. If he ever writes another novel, I will read it.
Dec 10, 2011Christopher Meades rated it it was amazing
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Just brilliant. Suskind writes like a modern Nabokov. His prose is lush and complex and yet reads so smoothly that his stories are accessible as well. Just an amazing story told by a master writer.
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Interesting and genius long story. to summarize briefly: I think a person's integrity can sometimes be disrupted by even small things. this could lead to total collapses.
Interesting and genius long story. to summarize briefly: I think a person's integrity can sometimes be disrupted by even small things. this could lead to total collapses.
Apr 02, 2017Fai Ahmed rated it liked it · review of another edition
Sep 23, 2016Tamsien West (Babbling Books) rated it liked it · review of another edition
The Pigeon is a truly strange and vividly intense novella. The narrative covers a single 24 hour period in the life of a Frenchman, with every action and emotion expressed in graphic, almost violent, prose.
This is not the kind of story that is particularly enjoyable or relaxing to read, because it is so overwhelming, but it is a really fascinating example of the potential of literature. The protagonist’s identity is almost completely obscured by the paranoia and intense emotions he experiences a..more
This is not the kind of story that is particularly enjoyable or relaxing to read, because it is so overwhelming, but it is a really fascinating example of the potential of literature. The protagonist’s identity is almost completely obscured by the paranoia and intense emotions he experiences a..more
Apr 29, 2011David rated it it was amazing
I just reread this book for probably the fourth or fifth time, and I was reminded again of what a remarkable, complex, insightful book this is - and all in 115 pages that can be read in a couple of hours.
Two sentences tell you everything you need to know about Jonathan Noel's life up to the action in this book:
'For he was not fond of events, and hated outright those that rattled his inner equilibrium and made a muddle of the external arrangements of life.'
And, regarding the one small room he h..more
Two sentences tell you everything you need to know about Jonathan Noel's life up to the action in this book:
'For he was not fond of events, and hated outright those that rattled his inner equilibrium and made a muddle of the external arrangements of life.'
And, regarding the one small room he h..more
The main character of this novel, Jonathan Noel just wants a quiet life, without people and drama. He's just waiting to die so he can escape this world he never asked to be in. He works a mind-numbing job as a pacing bank security guard. He once envied a homeless man with more freedom than himself, until a couple decades ago in the mid-60s when he saw him take a shit in the street. That has kept him faithful to his job and his style of life all these years -- he can avoid shitting in the street...more
Feb 12, 2017Carina rated it really liked it · review of another edition
3.75
Such a quick read about such normal things over all.
The pigeon was a great metaphor showing that people can be afraid of the weirdest (most normal) things. That life can be turned upside down by such random changes in every day life. It was hilarious and sad and funny and comprehensible at the same time.
& I loved the puddle-jumping scene! It was the perfect ending.
Such a quick read about such normal things over all.
The pigeon was a great metaphor showing that people can be afraid of the weirdest (most normal) things. That life can be turned upside down by such random changes in every day life. It was hilarious and sad and funny and comprehensible at the same time.
& I loved the puddle-jumping scene! It was the perfect ending.
I couldn't put this down from beginning to end. I was totally gripped in the tense, descriptive writing of the character. Sometimes it is the littlest of things in life that can throw us off balance and turn a straight forward day on its head. In this case, it is a pigeon.
May 14, 2012Melanti rated it really liked it · review of another edition
A bit of a departure from Perfume, but enjoyable nonetheless. It reminded me a bit of Kafka or Poe in that the story hinges on obsession about a seemingly insignificant occurrence, in this case a pigeon lurking in the hallway of his boarding house, and snowballs from there.
Apr 04, 2019Robin Waldburger rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Feb 20, 2018Ajla rated it liked it · review of another edition
Short, weird and also thought-provoking.
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From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double B..more
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