#375
Title: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Author: Muriel Barbery
Translator: Alison Anderson
Year: 2006/2008
Publisher: Europa Editions
325 pages
Here I will beg to differ from many of my online friends and people whose opinions I admire. I was willing to live with the book's premise and the protagonist's unpleasantly classist world view. I was willing to suspend disbelief and manage the general preciousness of the characters. I endured scores of pages of tedious and sophomoric philosophical rambling. The payoff for this was the idea that it's okay to be dead if your heart is in the right place. Or maybe it's if you're enlightened. Or just a person who admires interior decorating. Unless you're a child. What looked like it might resolve in an interesting way turned out to be a one-trick pony. I'll get my wabi sabi elsewhere from now on.
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