The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for a sustained investigation into the power and significance of literature. Proust’s novel, almost a byword for obscurity and irrelevance, emerges as an invaluable source of insight into the workings of love, society, art and the meaning of existence.
The book reveals Proust’s thoughts on how to revive a relationship, choose a good doctor, enjoy a holiday, make friends and respond to insult. A vivid portrait of the eccentric yet deeply sympathetic author is built up out of extracts from his letters, essays and fiction and is combined with a commentary on the power of literature to change our lives. A self-help book like few others.(extracted from Alaindebotton.com)
Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London.
He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'
(extracted from Alaindebotton.com)
没事干的青春,实在是无聊,一无聊的时候,除了偶尔对白白嫩嫩的女生意淫一番,剩余的大部分时间自己也就想着法子往书店跑。 高中的时候去学校对面的教育书店,透过一堆教材挤成的小山丘,一个头埋得很深的中学生,正津津有味地翻着村上春树。虽然那段时间正好是村上体风靡的...
评分How Proust can -------对于Alain de Botton关于Proust的独到见解的指指点点 翻译者余斌在前言里说:这是一本风趣的书,然而里面不乏一本正经的教诲之言。这是一本教训之书,然而全书贯穿着揶揄调侃的语调。最后只好说这本书于各种成分兼而有之......硬要归类,也许就得拖...
评分How Proust can -------对于Alain de Botton关于Proust的独到见解的指指点点 翻译者余斌在前言里说:这是一本风趣的书,然而里面不乏一本正经的教诲之言。这是一本教训之书,然而全书贯穿着揶揄调侃的语调。最后只好说这本书于各种成分兼而有之......硬要归类,也许就得拖...
评分读德波顿的书是种奇怪的感觉,阅读时全心投入感慨万千,一切结束之后我就无比沮丧起来。在书中他写到伍尔芙读完【追忆似水年华】的感觉,正像自己读完【拥抱逝水年华】:要是能写得像他那么好多好啊。伍尔芙说【追忆似水年华】像一片沼泽般令她望而却步,她害怕自己若沉下去...
评分阿兰·德波顿的书读完了《爱上浪漫》和《拥抱似水年华》,满身都是舒服之感。学识渊博的表现并不是说些不着边际的大话假话空话来迷惑世人来显示自己的高深,成为所谓的名著。它应该像德波顿说的那样,一本好书就是一次交谈,轻松自在,不在于学到什么谈资之类的东西,因为你只...
we can get power and strength from the classic and this is the best example
评分生活也许不会有什么改变,只是读的很舒服。
评分屁股先生真的好八卦啊……
评分阿兰的文笔向来轻松诙谐又富有哲理,真心好呢。
评分in the end, found it more of an entertainment than of any other value
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