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.
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.
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 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...
评分我对于爱情的了解,在谈恋爱之前只有浅薄的认识。阅读和观影经验塑造了我对爱情浪漫主义式的想象。以为两个人在一起、相爱了,就能永远在一起。直到恋爱后,才发觉这种想法是多么地无知。爱情是两个人相互间的事情,不是一个人有爱就行了,而且爱虽然是和谐关系的基础,但只有...
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...
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
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。
评分试了好几次还是没有读完,实在不能relate
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。
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