![]() ![]() Paloma Josse is a 12-year-old girl who lives in Renée’s building. ![]() Renée spends her days running errands for the tenants of her building, spending time with her beloved cat, reading, and having tea with her friend Manuela, a cleaning lady in the building. ![]() Renée keeps her intelligence a secret from her employers because she assumes that wealthy people won’t be able to understand a concierge’s intellectualism. On the outside, she is old, poor, and not particularly friendly, but on the inside, Renée is a voracious reader, a thoughtful philosopher, and a stoic individualist. Renée Michel is a concierge for a wealthy Parisian building. The novel includes several allusions to literature, philosophy, film, music, and art, highlighting the importance of texts as a space for understanding what it means to be human.Ĭontent Warning: This novel contains references to self-harm and death by suicide. The Elegance of the Hedgehog follows the narrative point of view of two erudite narrators: Renée, a concierge who keeps her intellectualism a secret, and Paloma, a 12-year-old resident of Renée’s building whose emerging understandings of philosophy and society make her contemplate suicide. ![]()
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