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The Elegance of the Hedgehog (French: L'Élégance du hérisson) is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher [1] Muriel Barbery.The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Renée Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse.
Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969) is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. [1] Her 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries. Biography
Alison Anderson is the author of Darwin's Wink and the translator of seventeen books, including The Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Barbery.Anderson wrote about how it was for her to have translated Onitsha for the fall 1997 edition of World Literature Today [10]
Re Elegance, one of the keys is the sociology slant of the novel, and of the riots themselves, and sociology is very big in the French psyche since May 68, placing philosophy, philosophers and sociologists like Pierre Bourdieu in the public mind. Clued culturally, the French would probably get more out of this novel's subtext than English ...
The Hedgehog Review is an interdisciplinary academic journal published triannually by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (IASC) at the University of Virginia. The journal features critical writing about cultural identity , citizenship , cultural change , and cultural diversity .
Lupita Nyong’o shimmered in sequins at the New York City premiere of A Quiet Place: Day One. Nyong’o, 41, exuded eerie elegance for the horror film’s screening, rocking a black Prada ...
Derek Stanford FRSL (11 October 1918 – 19 December 2008) was a British writer, known as a biographer, essayist and poet.. Educated at Upper Latymer School, Hammersmith, London, he was a conscientious objector during World War II, serving in the Non-Combatant Corps. [1]
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