How Proust Can Change Your Life

Botton, Alain De

ISBN 10: 1742148999 ISBN 13: 9781742148991

Publisher: Bolinda Audio, 2011

Synopsis

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is the basis for a sustained investigation into the power and significance of literature, in a vivid portrait of the eccentric yet deeply sympathetic author that includes extracts from his letters, essays and fiction, combined with a commentary on the power of literature to change our lives. Read by Nicholas Bell.

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"This engaging book is one of the most entertaining pieces of literary criticism I have read in a long while." (The Sunday Telegraph)

"De Botton's little book is so charming, amusing and sensible that it may even itself change your life." (The Daily Telegraph)

"A self-help manual for the intelligent person . . . witty, funny, and tonic." (The New York Times Book Review)

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

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

"This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives." (Amazon)

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About this edition

• Publisher: Bolinda Audio
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1742148999
• ISBN 13: 9781742148991
• Binding: Audio CD