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ALAIN

DE BOTTON
How Proust can change

YOUR LIFE







`What a marvellous book this is ... de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say
about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention, taking your
time, being alive, and adds his own mentary. The result is as
intoxicating as it is wise, amusing as well as stimulating, and presented in so
fresh a fashion as to be unique ... I could not stop, and now must start all
over again'

Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday

`De Botton not only has plete understanding of Proust's life . . . but what
is particularly charming about this small, readable book is its tongue-in-cheek
benignity, its lightly held erudition and its generous way of lending itself to
what is not only the greatest book of the century but also the darkest and most
eccentric' Edmund White, Observer

`It contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction ... de
Botton, in emphasizing Proust's healing, advisory aspects, does us the service
of rereading him on our behalf, providing of that vast sacred lake a sweet and
lucid distillation'

John Updike, New Yorker
5 (7)

`De Botton's little book is so charming, amusing and sensible that it may even
itself change your life' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph

`This engaging book is one of the most entertaining pieces of literary criticism
I have read in a long while' John Weightman, Sunday Telegraph

`A very enjoyable book' Sebastian Faulks

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How PROUST CAN
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'In all [de Botton's) books serious philosophical ideas,
teasing advice for lovers and thoughts on literature are
tossed in the air and spun together like juggling balls. The
display is so dazzling that you almost don't notice how
clever de Bot