PERFUME+-+BALDINI

The first time Baldini is mentioned in the book //Perfume: the Story of a Murderer//, is in chapter 9. Suskind starts off by describing the living situation of Baldini. He mentions how his house is on the middle of a bridge, but because “This bridge was so crammed with four-story buildings […] you could not glimpse the river when crossing it and instead imagined yourself on solid ground on a perfectly normal street-and a very elegant one at that.” By talking about scenery and appearances and using the world ‘imagined’ in particular, Suskind portrays what Baldini is like himself as well (as we can read later on). Even though Baldini seems to be on ‘solid ground’ (‘and a very elegant [street] at that’), he really is not.