Muriel Barbery, a professor of philosophy, dabbled in literary writing in 2000 with the candy. In 2007 he published The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which was subsequently translated and for some unexpected reason the market has become a best-selling novel.
What it is, ie, sold well, in this case has nothing to do with their literary quality. The novel does, despite some implausible features one of the stars of twelve, philosophizing about everyday life and great systems of thought throughout its pages.
The other protagonist, the concierge of the building on rue de Grenelle in Paris, is one of those lovable characters that convinces us to every word that is a very intelligent woman who wants to go unnoticed.
During my reading of this novel, I wondered why the character of the girl, Paloma, no catches my attention. Maybe it's because childhood is a magic, a different dynamic. The whiz kids are not within my area of \u200b\u200binterest, rather worries me stability and the use of all that may come to know and the disillusionment that makes all this knowledge that maybe, just maybe, emotionally, can not handle.
The novel, for some people, is also a sum of contemporary thought that leads nowhere. Although obviously is full of references to thinkers, artists, filmmakers, the idea goes beyond these repetitions of quotations: A novel about solitude, about things that are worthwhile, how friendship, love and art, the daily saving of passage to a destination clear as death.
Heideggerian phenomenological thinking become visible in the reflections of these young women of Paris. Here I leave a link of Barbery in an interview he gave to the country about his novel. His bleak vision of integration is a thought that it would be questionable, especially for someone who comes from a nation as reconstituted by war, migration, cultural elitism, etc.
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