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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Muriel Barbery
Richard Teaford
, January 01, 2010
The Elegance of the Hedgehog blends knowledgeable understanding of philosophy with articulate and sometimes poetic language. Muriel Barbery is able to carry us into the lives of three people in a way that lets us feel their pain and at the same time, the glimmers of hope and the struggles for renewal that mark their lives. The entrance of one man into the lives of this young woman and the hidden genius of a concierge converge to bring us a renewed hope in the spark of genius and the zest for life that lives with all of us. It is a powerful and deeply moving book that will stay with me for years to come.
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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Muriel Barbery
Richard Teaford
, November 29, 2008
I finished reading The Elegance of the Hedgehog a few weeks ago. It is the best book I have read in years. I agree that it moves as life moves. However, I find action in it as the world that Barbery creates is filled with pathos, beauty and prose that merges into poetry and back again. The characters are alive with all that is fully human and let us see ourselves at our best and at our worst. I love the passage at the end of Ch. 13 on Eternity: "True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time. The camellia against the moss of the temple, the violet hues of the Kyoto mountains, a blue porcelain cup--this sudden flowering of beauty at the heart of ephemeral passion: is this not something we all aspire to? And something that, in our Western civilization, we do not know how to attain? The contemplation of eternity within the very movement of time." The author has gifted us with the flowering of beauty over and over again. I did find glimpses of eternity in the reading of this amazingly gifted writer.
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