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The book contains no end of excellent Proust trivia. (My favourite: the prototype of Odette really did live on rue Lapérouse and was unhappy to find she had been doxxed). Some of the advice may possibly change your life, though it's rather more likely to be effective if you also read A la recherche du temps perdu. I don't think de Botton would disagree. The Monty Python "All-England Summarise Proust Competition" sketch makes an early appearance, you are given fair warning.
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“… we are tempted to visit Illiers-Combray.”
“It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit. A genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not to look at his world through our eyes.”
Good advice for reading Proust. Good advice for living after Proust.
“It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit. A genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not to look at his world through our eyes.”
Good advice for reading Proust. Good advice for living after Proust.
Here's my plan: i will re-read this book a year from now after i have (hopefully) finished ISOLT...then my rating might jump to a 5. but without necessarily being able to follow or appreciate all the references to Proust's novel, i really enjoyed this book a lot and i imagine i'll be thinking back to it as i actually read Proust. and now i'm ready to read some Ruskin...
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Upon picking up this book I noticed the back cover was labeled Literature/Self-Help. I laughed. I couldn't imagine someone who reads self-help books picking up a book on Proust. At the same time I can't imagine a person who would read Proust or something about him to pick up a self-help book.
Now that I have read it I must say it wasn't what I expected. I expected it to be a book about how reading Proust would change my life or maybe how the experience of reading Proust would do so. Instead it i ...more
Now that I have read it I must say it wasn't what I expected. I expected it to be a book about how reading Proust would change my life or maybe how the experience of reading Proust would do so. Instead it i ...more
Ok - - I think this book has made me want to go back to school. (Holy Cow - when would I have a minute to go back to school?) Shannon said...Reading this book is like going to a lecture. That is what I want to hear is lectures, (not from those closest to me of course). This little mind of mine has this hunger for revelation. This book gave it to me: How to love life today, How to read for yourself, How to take your time, How to suffer successfully, How to express your emotions, How to be a good
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Table of contents: how to love life today, how to read for yourself, how to take your time, how to suffer successfully, how to express your emotions, how to be a good friend, how to open your eyes, how to be happy in love, how to put books down --> it was actually a delight to read this book given where I am right now in terms of rearranging my priorities, remembering that Nin said this was her favorite novel and so that means occasionally I would feel worried that if I were to die on the spot w
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Filling my need for background on and about Proust while I read In Search of Lost Time.
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