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.
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 评分前几年跟朋友聚会聊天的内容还是男友啊,恋爱啊,情感那方面的,也不知道从什么时候开始,对情感就不大感冒,大家更喜欢聊一些职场上的困惑,思维上的胡同,未来想要从事的行业方向。 或许是见多了情感上的悲欢离合,体会到了职场上有所成就的快感,爱情再也不会是生活中最重要...
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...
评分在看其他心理学小说的时候,我会不由自主地被情节带入,进而开始自我剖析。边读边自我检视和反思的过程往往带给我很多领悟。但是这一次不同。 看这本书时,我的内心是抗拒的,用心理学的话来说,这是遇到了“阻抗”。书中描写夫妻间冲突、争执、冷战等情节的时候,仿佛把我父母...
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“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don’t. This might even be one of the main points of literature: to tell us what society at large is too prudish to explore.” “Neither he nor she has to be perfect, he reflects; they only need to give each other the odd sign they know they can sometimes be quite hard to live with.”
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....
评分咳咳...送别人的结婚礼物(送礼难啊...)然后自己先偷看完了... 果然这类书都不太适合我
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