TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Botton, Alain
TI  - How Proust can change your life
SN  - 9781509870691
AV  - PQ2631.R63  Z54917 1997
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Picador
KW  -  Proust, Marcel
KW  - 1871-1922
KW  - Humor
KW  - Proust, Marcel
KW  - Criticism and interpretation
KW  - French fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - READING IN ENGLISH
N2  - 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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