How Prost Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel - Tapa dura

The author of On Love and The Romantic Movement presents a witty study of Marcel Proust that combines elements of literary biography, text analysis, and self-help manual as it examines the great writer's thoughts on true love, vacations, sex on the first date, and other issues. 17,500 first printing. Tour.

ton 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 understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its everyday parts. As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and unclichéd articulation, being a good host, recognizing love, and understanding why you should never sleep with someone on a first date. It took de Botton to find the inspirational in Proust's essays, letters and fiction and, perhaps even more surprising, to draw out a vivid and clarifying portrait of the master from between the lines of his work.