How Proust Can Change Your Life
$36.78
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2019
Summary
With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel
A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features is its staggering length, many of us feel intimidated and perhaps, even, fatigued at the thought of diving in. Alain de Botton’s hilarious and unexpected Proustian manual, is the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509870691 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509870695 |
| Author: | Alain de Botton |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Picador Classic |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
It contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction … de Botton, in emphasizing Proust’s healing, advisory aspects, does us the service of rereading him on our behalf, providing of that vast sacred lake a sweet and lucid distillation – John Updike * New Yorker *
Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton is the author of eight bestselling books including The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and Essays in Love. He was born in 1969 and lives in London.
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