Muriel Barbery

L’élégance du hérisson

   (The Elegance of the Hedgehog)

Gallimard, 2006    [tale, Fra, I3]

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«My name is Renéè, I’m fiftyfour years old and I’m the concierge at 7 rue de Granelle, a burgeois building. I’m a widower, small, ugly, dumpy, I’ve corns in my feet and, if I bother to some morning feelings, a bad breath. But, most of all, I look like the standard concierge at such a point, that nobody will be able to think that I’m best-learned han most of the rich people living here.

My name is Paloma, I’m twelve years old, I live in 7 rue de Granelle in a very wealthy flat. But since long I know that the finl destination is a fish pond, the emptiness and uselessness of grown-up people. Why do I know? Because I’m very sharp. Extremely sharp. It is why I’ve decided that at the end of this school year, on my thirteenth birthday, I’ll kill myself.»

Muriel Barbery was born in 1969. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is her second novel. Her first novel, A Greed (‘Une gourmandise’), was translated into twelve languages.

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