How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain De Botton

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain De Botton

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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ISBN 13	9780679442752
ISBN 10	0679442758
Title	How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
Author	Alain De Botton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1997-04-29
Number of pages	199
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