How Proust can change your life

Alain De Botton

earliest edition we have, 1997 Vintage International, 1998 paperback 197 pages

Ren wen si chao — book 22

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...

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Yong bao si shui nian hua edition · 2001 · Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si · 219 pages
How Proust can change your life paperback · 1998 · Vintage International · 197 pages
How Proust can change your life edition · 1997 · Picador · 215 pages
How Proust can change your life edition · 1997 · Pantheon Books · 199 pages

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