A treat

Description

We are in the same block of flats as the number 7 of the rue Grenelle of The elegance of the hedgehog, guarded by the goalkeeper Renée. The neighbor from the fourth, Mr. Arthens, the most important food critic in the world, He is dying in his room, and a single thought has him capficated: “I will die, and I can't remember that flavor that gripped my heart”. In the few hours he has left to live, Monsieur Arthens will travel through the senses in search of that one forgotten flavor that embodies the first and last truth and the essence of the purest pleasures, those who make up the true beauty of the little things: the scent of the grilled sardines his grandfather was cooking, the smells of the beaches, orchards and gardens, the casseroles of his childhood, the first liquors…With his rich and precise style and a tender and humorous sensibility, Muriel Barbery sketches the portrait of a man and the balance of a whole life full of lights and shadows, and manages to excite our taste buds to the limit. A treat for our reader's palate that we need to savor from the first page.”Pierre Arthens, the food critic of the quarter, he is an oligarch of the worst kind … Can one be so gifted and so blind to the presence of things? It seems so. Certain people are incapable of grasping in what they contemplate what constitutes its intrinsic life and breath”. The elegance of the hedgehog.”Novel with several voices, A treat draws with a scented and tasty tongue the portrait of a man and a complex life made of both generosity and selfishness. With his first work, Muriel Barbery has written a little gem”. Celine Darner