How Proust Can Change Your Life

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• Marcel Proust was cooler than you are. A Review of How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton. Share

  Harry's got sort of a wonky cross, that's 'trials and suffering'. And that there could be the sun and thats 'happiness'. So you're gonna suffer but you'll be happy about it -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Born on July 10, 1871, Valentin ... (read full critics)

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  Philosophy meets sarcasm

  I was expecting a self-help book drawing lessons from Proust's literature. Instead I find that Proust was by all accounts a hypochondriac, and the self-help seems to be mainly of the nature of "don't be like Proust"

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  peripatetic said on Sep 23, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Accessible and enjoyable

  The chapter headings act as good reminders for me and add the the general message I took from the book. To take time to enjoy things, to search for a true and authentic expression of one's thoughts and feelings. They might sound quite haughty ambitions, but the book made them very accessible and ach ... (continue)

  The chapter headings act as good reminders for me and add the the general message I took from the book. To take time to enjoy things, to search for a true and authentic expression of one's thoughts and feelings. They might sound quite haughty ambitions, but the book made them very accessible and achievable by introducing a Proustian philosophy.

  Made me want to go and read Proust too.

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  Mearso said on Feb 17, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  this one is not as gd as other later bks by Alain, but it tempts me into reading Proust's In Search of Time Lost...though its length definitely discourages me to even start reading!

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  Shermaine said on Oct 13, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Audio CD
• ISBN-10: 1904605303
• ISBN-13: 9781904605300
• Publisher: CSA WORD
• Pub date: Jan 31, 2005
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
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