Links for the East Side Readers' discussion.
- Reading Guide from the Publisher @ BookBrowse
- Questions assembled by another book group
- Archived online discussion of the book by said bookgroup (long)
- Complete Reviews & Links :: A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery.
- Blogging the Hedgehog :: (Barbery's blog, incredible photos by her husband, Stéphane)
- Stéphane Barbery's photos (from Japan, on his blog)
- Caryn James' Times review
- Necromancy Never Pays (book blog review)
- PRI review
- Amazon 1-star customer reviews
- The Diane Rehm Show for Wednesday April 22, 2009 (radio discussion; 51 mins)
- Interviews with M. Barbery
- What Barbery told Adam Gopnik :: Barbery revealed the journey behind the book’s success (via translator) to New York’s own Adam Gopnik as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.
- The Hedgehog's Dilemma - Wiki
- Selected Glossary of words from the text
- Yasujiro Ozu (Japanese director - Google Images)
- Yasujiro Ozu (Japanese director on IMDB)
- Munekata kyoudai (1950) at IMDB and Ozu-san . Films - The Munekata Sisters (1950)
- Foxes, Hedgehogs and the Defense of Freedom - NYT (Isaiah Berlin)
- Isaiah Berlin (encyclopedia entry)
- Berlin's Text of The Hedgehog & the Fox (pdf format)
- The Rose - Pierre Ronsard poem (in English)
- The Rose - Pierre Ronsard poem (in French)
- Pieter Claesz (Dutch artist; Google search)
- Peter Claesz - Images of paintings from Google
- Willem Kalf - Images of paintings
- Osias Beert - Images of paintings
- jacques lacan - Google Search
- YouTube - Mozart - Requiem - Confutatis - 7
- 7, rue de grenelle, paris, france on Google Maps
- Movie Trailer for Le hérisson by Mona Achache with Josiane Balasko / 2009
- Le Hérisson -- stills from the movie
- Togo Igawa (Mr. Ozu)
- Alexandre Dumas Fils' "La Dame Aux Camelias" (The Lady of the Camilias)
- Photos of camelias
- Photo of mama & baby hedgehogs
- For September 17th, Cheri & The Last of Cheri, the classic novellas by Colette, which will be an extreme counterpoint to hedgehogs. The movie (cinematically beautiful, but they messed with the text) still around town.
- For October 15th, the great spy novelist Alan Furst's The World at Night, which will put us in Paris during WWII.
- For November 19th, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby, which is being read in many one-book communities this year.
- On Sept 3rd at 7 pm, the Classics Klatch will discuss the classic Norwegian drama "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen. Then, "Dracula" by Bram Stoker for October 1, in time for Halloween!
1 comment:
Thanks for a great turnout & discussion for The Elegance of the Hedgehog. VA, thank you for printing out those photographs... very lovely.
Most everyone liked the novel, some found it unnecessarily long and/or pretentious, no real problem with the translation, and not sure why it had to end the way it did, although it did save the author a mess of other problems.
I forgot to ask one question.... The novel is about the transformative power of Art & Beauty. Have any of you had this experience? And what was it?
I'd have to say that reading In Search of Lost Time was transformative. Middle period Twyla Tharp choreography, i.e., Nine Sinatra Songs, In the Upper Room, Fait Accompli, makes me cry & laugh all at once. Many others, as well.
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