How Proust Can Change Your Life
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How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history's most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that's "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).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 unclichéd 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.
Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of How Proust Can Transform Your Life, as well as a number of other fiction and nonfiction works. He is well-known for making difficult philosophical and artistic topics understandable to a broader audience. De Botton established the School of Life, a series of lectures in London that aims to apply academic knowledge to real-life situations. Following the school's popularity, the concept was expanded into The School of Life book series. De Botton is a British author who lives and works in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679779155 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679779159 |
| Title | How Proust Can Change Your Life |
| Author | Alain De Botton |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1998-04-28 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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