Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, E / O 2007
Paris, rue de Grenelle number 7. An elegant mansion inhabited by upper-class families. We live in ministers, bureaucrats, maitres à penser culinary culture. Since its gatehouse assist the flow of this life of luxury, the emptiness concierge Renée, who appears in all respects conforms to the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe concierge: fat, slovenly, surly and couch potato. Not surprising, then. Except that, unbeknownst to all, Renée is a cultured autodidact who adores art, philosophy, music, Japanese culture. Marx quotes, Proust, Kant ... from the intellectual point of view is able to make fun of his rich and pompous bosses. But everyone in the building ignore his refined knowledge, she is careful to keep strictly hidden, glossed over with sly humor. Then there's Paloma, the daughter of a minister obtuse; twelve brilliant, witty and too glossy, tired of living, decided to call it quits (June 16, the day of his thirteenth birthday). Up then continue to pretend to be a girl and soaked in mediocre adolescent subculture like any other, secretly watching with a critical eye and harsh environment that surrounds it. Two characters in disguise, so different and yet united by the ironic disenchanted, unaware that the deception of the other one, will meet only with the arrival of Monsieur Ozu, a wealthy Japanese, that will only expose Renée.
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