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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
How Proust Can Change Your Life Not a Novel
Author: Alain De Botton
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. — Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust un...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780679779155
ISBN-10: 0679779159
Publication Date: 4/28/1998
Pages: 208
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3.9 stars, based on 18 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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Excellent mixture of Self Help, literary criticism, biography and readers guide. Lovely read!
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This was supposed to be charming; I found it empty and boring. It was supposed to be about Proust's wisdom, but the writing was so glancing and self-important that I couldn't find much of Proust in it and certainly no wisdom. Completely disappointing - sorry I bought it.


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