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  • How Proust Can Change Your Life

  • Written by: Alain de Botton
  • Narrated by: Nicholas Bell
  • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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How Proust Can Change Your Life

Written by: Alain de Botton
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For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-million words of In Search of Lost Time (while bedridden no less), Alain de Botton has the answer. For, in this stylish, erudite and frequently hilarious book, de Botton dips deeply into Proust’s life and work - his fiction, letters, and conversations – and distils from them that rare self-help manual: one that is actually helpful.

Here, tendered in prose almost as luminous as its subject’s, is advice on cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, recognising love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on the first date. And here, too, is a generously perceptive literary biography that suggests that the master is as relevant today as he was in fin de siècle Paris.
©1997 Alain de Botton (P)2010 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
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A great and insightful introduction to Proust

Wonderful collection of essays that show the application of Proust's thought to everyday problems. Extensive research of sources really shows in how the author presents events from Proust's life. Must read.

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A must read for all the Proustian lovers

If not yet introduced to the writings of Proust..this book of Alab de Botton will surely generate a lots of interest in the overall work of Marcel Proust and his connection with the world at large.

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