![]() ![]() ![]() Later, she is stunned to discover her new neighbor’s two felines are called Kitty and Levin (p. The main character, Renee Michel, owns a cat, not coincidentally, named Leo. The story takes places in Paris, concentrating on characters who reside in a high-end apartment building. Indeed, there are references to the great Russian writer. The premise still intrigued me, yet it was not until last month that I actually read the novel. Yet when I read the synopisis on the back cover, I was disappointed. Remembering these words was what prompted me to pick up Muriel Barbery’s second novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog in a local bookstore about five years ago. ![]() “The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This is the opening of the essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox” by philosopher-critic Isaiah Berlin. ![]()
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