Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries.
Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education. Alain’s latest book will be published in April 2016 and is titled The Course of Love.
Alain started writing at a young age. His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], was published when he was twenty-three.
In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married. They have children. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning.
From the author of Essays in Love comes the long-awaited and beguiling sequel, which charts the complex and intricate course of a long-term relationship.
We all know the headiness and excitement of love’s early days, but what can be expected over a shared lifetime? We follow our couple – Rabih and Kristen – from the first flush of infatuation through to inevitable disenchantments and then onto the freedom and insights of maturity. The Course of Love is a novel that explores not so much the start of love, as its maintenance over time; the way our ideals bend and reform under the pressures of an average existence, and the magnificent, sometimes frightening, developments we can make as we slowly realise that love is in essence a skill we need to learn rather than an enthusiasm we simply experience.
Playful, wise, and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is an unparalleled meditation on modern relationships —and a delightful return to the novel for Alain, more than 20 years after Essays in Love.
关于婚姻的随笔小说。 第三人称上帝式的视角,每写一段情节再来一段心理学家评述式的话语。情节极其简单,但是写作的细节足够细腻,而且翻译也有一点韵味,值得一读。 最开始阅读这本书是因为看这本书的梗概说里面有婚外情但最终婚姻却更进一步,我想知道夫妻两人是如何做到这...
评分从『浪漫笔记』到『爱的进化论』,阿兰•德波顿从未让我们失望。中间二十多年,似乎也见证了他本人爱情观的进化。当然,不变的是对人性的体察和宽容,对世界的遗憾与无奈。 这世界上没有什么无法从逻辑角度去分析的事情,除了爱情,否则就不会有那么多文学艺术作品去表现它。...
评分这是第一次看有关婚姻与爱情的书籍,我一直都比较排斥此类书籍,特别是对外国作者更是抱有偏见,觉得可能并不适合中国国情,但很幸运,没有错过这本书!我喜欢它细致的分析,我想这与它的翻译者也有莫大的关联,她必定也是对绵密的生活有着超于常人的体悟,生活的纹理如此清晰...
评分最喜欢的章节是一地鸡毛,还有双向出轨那段也喜欢。我们必须做好充足的准备才可以踏入婚姻,有些矛盾早发生不是什么坏事。我看过的另一本书《社会动物》里面也有类似的情节,那本书描写的视角更好玩,让人觉得一个具体的人不重要,那本书本身就是在讲社会学常识。而阿兰这本书...
评分总觉得作者在我的房间的阴暗小角落装了一个监控器。又或是在我隐蔽的心底。三年来在不稳定的工作,矛盾冲突爆发的家庭生活,子女教育和夫妻关系里撕裂拉扯。青年时代开始崇尚的个人主义和完美主义日益沉淀,让浪漫主义婚姻观多年来扎根于心。于是在日复一日的纷杂争吵后,总会...
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评分虎头蛇尾,德波顿独有的哲人式絮叨。文字舒服的时候感觉满口绵密,做作的时候会让人一秒出戏。
评分婚姻真实的样子。接受别人和自己的不完美
评分There is no such person over the long term. We are too varied and peculiar....
评分ebook 9781501134434
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