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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.
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 ...
Her novel L'Élégance du hérisson (translated by Alison Anderson as The Elegance of the Hedgehog) topped the French bestseller lists for 30 consecutive weeks [2] and was reprinted 50 times, selling over a million copies by May 2008. [3] It has also been a bestseller in Italy, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and in many other countries.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog (2006) by Muriel Barbery with Alison Anderson (Trans.) Listen Up Award for Fiction Finalist [24] Fire Me Up by Katie MacAlister: Audie Award for Romance: Finalist [25] Lethal Legacy (2009) by Linda Fairstein: Earphones Award: Winner [26] 2010 Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies and Leslie Gold Audie Award for ...
The hedgehog's dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is a metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one another to share heat during cold weather. They must remain apart, however, as they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp spines. Though ...
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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]