How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
by Alain De Botton

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Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past is one of those books that people intend to read, but instead sits undisturbed on bookshelves and bedside tables across the nation, gathering dust with equally daunting classics such as Moby Dick, Ulysses, or anything by Tolstoy. Alain de Botton's delightful How Proust Can Change Your Life might just change all that. De Botton clearly has read Proust, and he's even gleaned some life lessons from the great man's example, many of which are presented in his book. In addition to providing a biographical portrait of the writer, Proust devotes each chapter to one of the nine methods of self-improvement de Botton has culled from Proust's work, from "How to Express Your Emotions" to "How to Suffer Successfully."

Given that Marcel Proust was an invalid who spent most of his short life as a shut-in, the tranquillity of Remembrance of Things Past is surprising, yet in accordance with its author's generous nature; Proust never whined about his infirmities, never inflicted his suffering on others, an example Alain de Botton renders up with charm and perception. Who knows? Maybe How Proust Can Change Your Life will inspire you to dust off your long-neglected copy of Proust's masterpiece in search of a life-changing experience

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