Perfume depicts the life of the hero Grenouille through linear narration. From birth to death, it shows his persistent pursuit of unique perfume. The novel portrays Grenouille as a demon like scent genius, who transforms the fragrance of a girl into his own fragrance and creates a unique perfume. This incense making behavior is both shocking and groundbreaking, making him a Prometheus like creator. However, the artist's arrogance ultimately led to his downfall. Grenouille became one with perfume, and was eventually devoured by barbarians, becoming the victim of his own art. The article applies Latour's theory of actor networks and Bataille's theory of pornography to explore how the protagonist and his artwork become a unified hybrid and embody the energy of evil in a state of intoxication.

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In the novel perfume, the protagonist Grenoyer pursues perfume for lack of body odor, and his sense of smell is extremely keen. Latour's theory of "inward folding body" suggests that the body is influenced by external factors, and the novel explores the generation of the pseudo subject through Grenoye's bodily loss of body odor. Grenouille makes up for body odor by making perfume and forms a hybrid actor network with perfume. perfume becomes an "odor device" to train smell and store odor. The combination of Grenouille and perfume has changed both of them. perfume is not only a commodity, but also an actor who establishes contact with human beings and plays a role together.

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This paper probes into the role of perfume as the pseudo object in the novel perfume, and analyzes how it is co constructed by natural and social entities. Latour's point of view was cited to illustrate the blurring of the boundaries between nature and society, and how perfume became the "pseudo object" connecting the two. Perfume was originally a natural smell, but when it was extracted and used as a commodity, it assumed a social role. The application of laboratory research and scientific technology enables the mutual construction of nature and society, a process that goes beyond traditional modern mode understanding. Baldini, the manufacturer of perfume in the novel, seeks innovation in the laboratory, which reflects the technological "socialization" and "humanization" of social technicalization and natural laws.

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This paper probes into the complex relationship between the artist and his works, especially in the novel perfume, the fusion between the artist Grenouille and his perfume. Through the theories of Latour and Bataye, the indivisibility of subject and object, as well as the close relationship between the possessor and the possession, were analyzed. The combination of Grenouille and perfume has reached a high degree of unity of existence, transcending the shackles of history and becoming a pure continuity. The death of Grenoye in the novel is closely linked to the discontinuous world of labor, and both his labor and death have fundamental destructive significance.