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How Proust Can Change Your Life
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.
Vintage
May 1998
208 pages ISBN: 0679779159 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction
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.
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