How Proust Can Change Your Life

Alain de Botton

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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 inspiration 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.

Book Details

Publisher: Vintage
Publish Date: Apr 28th, 1998
Pages: 208
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.98in - 5.20in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
EAN: 9780679779155
Categories: • European - French• Humorous - General

About the Author

ALAIN DE BOTTON was born in 1969. He is the internationally heralded author of the novels On Love, The Romantic Movement, and Kiss and Tell; his work has been translated into sixteen languages. He lives in Washington, D.C., and London.

Praise for this book

"Delightfully original.... As well as being criticism, biography, literary history, and a reader's guide to Proust's masterpiece, this is a self-help book in the deepest sense of the term." --The New York Times

"One of my favorite books of the year.... Seriously cheeky, cheekily serious." --Julian Barnes

"Curious, humorous, didactic, and dazzling.... It contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction." --John Updike, The New Yorker

"A witty, elegant book that helps us learn what reading is for." --Doris Lessing

"A wonderful meditation on aspects of Proust in the form of a self-help book. Very enjoyable." --Sebastian Faulks

"Funny and very refreshing." --San Francisco Chronicle