How Proust Can Change Your Life Paperback - 1998
by Alain de Botton
"A self-help manual for the intelligent person" ("The New York Times Book Review"), this stylish, erudite, and frequently hilarious book dips deeply into Marcel Proust's life and work to uncover a font of wonderful advice on such subjects as cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, and recognizing love.
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There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness.
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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work. Here is Proust as we have never seen or read him before: witty, intelligent, pragmatic. He might well change your life.
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- Title How Proust Can Change Your Life
- Author Alain de Botton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date April 28, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780679779155 / 0679779159
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.98 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (20.27 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Proust, Marcel - Humor
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96047106
- Dewey Decimal Code 843.912
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Media reviews
Citations
- Commonweal, 06/20/2003, Page 20
- New York Times, 06/28/1998, Page 28
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