But beneath this facade lies the real Renée: passionate about culture and the arts and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their outwardly successful but emotionally void lives.ĭown in her lodge, apart from weekly visits by her one friend Manuela, Renée lives with only her cat for company. She maintains a carefully constructed persona as someone uncultivated but reliable, in keeping with what she feels a concierge should be. Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building.
Here is maybe a better more understandable review.An exclusive, signed, hardback special edition of the worldwide bestseller It's a quick read,full of good things,and not that artificial. The book is very well written and original without the gadget style certain too good ideas can bring along.The fact that often people act what is expected of them and not what they are, is interesting and common.And by playing it too long they kill the intimate part of themselves.Also some nice part because the intellectualisme of Ren?e is not stiff,she like Osu and Ridley scott,critic phenomenology,and is a specialist of dutch still lives of the 18 th century.
I specialy like the "world movement" she writes.Classic body move of sports men or the move of a rose bulbe rolling on a table to fall silently on a towel.Since reading it,i actuly gather "mouvement du monde" myself. The other charactere is Paloma,a 12 years old little genius who decided to die a 13 before being caugh in the "fish bowl" as she sees the predictable lives of poeple suronding her.She also play down her role of a good little girls,hidding her mental abilities,while gathering sleeping pills for her suicide and writing a journal of "Deep thought" and "world movement".
The story of Ren?e,the caretaker of expensive appartements in Paris(400 m squarre flats).Caretaker is an old Parisian tradition,the usualy live in the ground floor,are vindictive,spy on every one,watch soap opera all day,and own a french poodle(about as agressif as them).And to be honest i have knowed many who stick perfectly the description.But Ren?e is different,she loves Anna karenina,Tolstoy,read phylosophie and watch arty japanese movies.She also want to be left alone so she play the part expected from her.Leave the TV on while reading in the back room.Cook heavy stuff in gravy or with cabage for the cover smell, when she love delicate dishes and jasmine tea. So i came to it with a bad a-priori,to much fuss,to smart an idea,but really liked it.
The elegance of the hedgehog-Muriel Barbery
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