Thor's Day: Contemplative estheticism

Garance Le Guillermic plays
Paloma Josse in the movie

From The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Muriel Barbery

I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative esthete. With major Zen tendencies....
    Let me explain. This is a somewhat special "movement of the world," because it's not about a movement of the body. But this morning, while having breakfast, I saw a movement. The movement. Perfection of movement. Yesterday (it was Monday), Madame Grémont, the clearing lady, brought Maman a bouquet of roses....

Thor's Day: Heaven on earth

From The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By Muriel Barbery

From "On Grammar, 6. Wabi"

At the door stands a courier....
    "Madame Michel?" he asks.
    He thrusts a package into my hands.
    "Nothing to sign?" I ask.
    But he has already vanished.

Sunday Review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (a book)

Hedgehogs found out

By Morris Dean

The central, narrating character of Muriel Barbery's 2006 novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog [in French: L'Elegance du Herisson, translated into English by Alison Anderson] is Renée Michel: