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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.
The Hedgehog (Le Hérisson) is a French film directed by Mona Achache, loosely based on the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. Made in 2008 , the film was released in theatres in 2009 .
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
FLASHBACKS: It made a star out of Toni Collette and is one of the few films to have an Abba-approved soundtrack. As the Golden Globe-nominated cult classic turns 30, Roisin O’Connor explores how ...
One of the most popular book-length children's poems in Serbian is Branko Ćopić's Ježeva kućica, (The Hedgehog's Little House) Fuzzypeg, a friend of Little Grey Rabbit. Yona, the Hedgehog, is a mythical character in Richard Adams' Watership Down. Shakespeare referenced hedgehogs in The Tempest and Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The New York Times wrote that Portis's "people have dignity and determination and an abiding respect for each other's obsessions." [4] Kirkus Reviews called the book "a funky, off-center book that never guns its motor and yet is always arriving at some place that's green and fresh and funny."
A hedgehog is a small, spiny mammal. Hedgehog may also refer to: Domesticated hedgehog; Hedgehog (band), a Beijing rock band; Hedgehog cactus (disambiguation), a common name for Pediocactus, Echinocereus, or Echinopsis; Hedgehog plant, Erinacea anthyllis; Hedgehog (chess), a pawn formation in chess; Hedgehog (weapon), an anti-submarine weapon
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 ...