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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.
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.
In 2009, Achache wrote and directed her first feature film, The Hedgehog, based on the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. [1] That same year, she had a small part in the French-Greek drama film Eden Is West, directed by Costa-Gavras. [1] In 2013, she co-wrote the screenplay of the comedy film Les gamins, directed by Anthony ...
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 (Le hérisson) Mona Achache: Josiane Balasko Garance Le Guillermic: Based on the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery: Little White Lies: Guillaume Canet: François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard: Comedy, drama: Love Like Poison (Un Poison Violent) Katell Quillévéré: Clara Augarde, Lio, Michel Galabru: Drama
The Elegance of the Hedgehog; Emile, or On Education; The Childhood of a Leader (novella) Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician; F. The Fall (Camus novel)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog; The Childhood of a Leader (novella) The Erl-King (novel) F. Fable for Another Time; The Fairy Gunmother; The Fall (Camus novel)
Yuri Borisovich Norstein (Russian: Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн; born 15 September 1941) is a Soviet and Russian animator best known for his animated shorts Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. [1] [2] Since 1981, he has been working on a feature film called The Overcoat, based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol of the ...