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...
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...
评分爱的进化论 阿兰·德波顿 76个笔记 从此,他们过上了幸福的生活?——译者序 随笔作家。据我个人的理解,所谓随笔作家,就是既能抓住人类生存的各种重大主题,又能以如话家常的亲切方式对这些主题进行讨论的作家。 爱的本质,与其说是一份激情热忱,还不如说是一种需要学习的技...
The italicised rumination seems rather arbitrary and disconnected from the flow of the story and the thoughts of the characters. The moving ultimate section is probably its redemptive feature.
评分这本书听作者的演讲已经足够,别人的感情看起来实在平淡无趣。
评分There is no such person over the long term. We are too varied and peculiar....
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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