![]() ![]() She is keeping a diary she calls a "Journal of the Movement of the World". ![]() Paloma, like Renée, is a philosopher manqué. One half of The Elegance of the Hedgehog is narrated by Renée, the other by Paloma Josse, a precocious 12-year-old who lives in one of the apartments at Rue de Grenelle. But when one of the apartments is bought by a wealthy Japanese businessman named Kakuro Ozu, Renée and Kakuro form an unlikely friendship. Renée has only one real friend - Manuela, a Portuguese cleaner, who spends her time in the apartments polishing toilets with a Q-tip. She is, in other words, too good to be true, and either utterly beguiling or completely infuriating, according to taste. She also admires and is knowledgeable about 17th-century Dutch painting. She is a passionate aesthete and intellectual who likes to read Kant, watch Japanese art-house films, and listen to Purcell. ![]() eyes filling with tears, in the miraculous presence of Art". She pretends to cook stinky concierge-type food and watch rubbish TV when in fact she is hiding "in the back room, perfectly euphoric. Underneath her prickly and bunioned exterior Renée is indeed extraordinarily refined. ![]()
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