8 edition of How Proust Can Change Your Life found in the catalog.
Published
February 1999
by The Audio Partners
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Contributions | Samuel West (Reader) |
| The Physical Object | |
|---|---|
| Format | Audio cassette |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL8735964M |
| ISBN 10 | 1572700971 |
| ISBN 10 | 9781572700970 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 40896850 |
About How Proust Can Change Your Life. Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres–literary biography and self-help manual–in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Editions for How Proust Can Change Your Life: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in.
How Proust Can Change Your Life: Reviews Julie K.L. Dam in Time, 2 June Alain de Botton’s delicious new book explains how in the search of a lost time can change our lives Even the most diligent of readers may be excused for falling short of conquering the Mount Everest of 20th century literature, Marcel Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Read more. 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."/5().
How Proust Can Change Your Life (Coming Soon). About Alain de Botton Alain de Botton is the author of eight bestselling books including The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art . De Botton says you can, whether "How to Love Life Today" or "How to Suffer Successfully." De Botton has self-consciously mixed genres in his fiction, e.g., biography and the novel in Kiss and Tell (), which hinted at his Proust worship.
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His birth took place in the Paris Borough of Auteuil (the south-western sector of the then-rustic 16th arrondissement) at the home of his great-uncle on 10 Julytwo months after the Treaty of Frankfurt formally ended the Born: Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel.
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Alain de Botton, FRSL (/ d ə ˈ b ɒ t ən /; born 20 December ) is a Swiss-born British philosopher and books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (), which went on to sell two million copies.
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