![]() She is dissatisfied and frustrated with her wealthy family and sees the fallacy of status all around her. 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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