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HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE
by Alain de Botton
read by Samuel West
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This witty combination of biography and literary criticism is an informative and amusing book about the celebrated French writer, imitating the style of present-day ‘self-help’ books.
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That’s beautiful, …
That’s beautiful, Marcel…
Proust, Joyce, …
Proust, Joyce, Faulkner, and Beckett…my favorites.
@Questpeace
haha, …
@Questpeace
haha, good call
I enjoyed this very …
I enjoyed this very much!! Very funny, erudite, thought-provoking.
People born in ’66 …
People born in ’66 sucked.
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Haleandplaiceandhearty Coneycunclusions Eggsagtoyoureighted. Moy seniorseatceriticity shed nought bee debited. End up yer Erse wid a beananagh.
Monsterpiece? …
Monsterpiece? Really, tigerboy?
Plotitcal …
Plotitcal fairbosity deed note thundermine Jacomo Jesuskin’s monsterpiece. Hairy Cheeky Endiplecore. And pluck u. End the whore you wrote in on.
It’s not about plot …
It’s not about plot. The same thing goes for Ulysses and Finnegan’s Wake so I’m going to go ahead and call bullshit that you read them.
I read Alain’s book …
I read Alain’s book.
I also read all three volumes of “The Search”. I’ve always felt that Proust was a Love Addict. For it takes one to know one.
A profound quote: “Houses Roads Avenues are as fugitive alas as the years.”
Proust is a …
Proust is a wonderful writer and person because it was his, Marcel’s voice that allowed us to find love and beauty everywhere. That voice told the truth about life with wit and charm. I love Proust!
cd1 and cd2 were …
cd1 and cd2 were great. after the first part of cd3 i turned it off and stopped listening. Alain, is there any reason why you chose to use “Question…”, “Answer…” every 2 seconds, about a hundred times in a row?
This recording was so enjoyable until that really irritating constant stream of ‘question’ and ‘answer’. It ruined the whole thing and i feel irritated and in a bad mood even just thinking about it.
Having read “War …
Having read “War and Peace”, “The Brothers Karamazov” “Finnegans Wake” and “Ulysses”, I can hardly be called a quitter when it comes to long, difficult novels. However, I always give up on Proust after about 50 pages because NOTHING HAPPENS. What am I missing? Help!
We all live our …
We all live our live with too much worries and sadness, to think that death may come this evening, can cheer we up, i mean, we have to enjoy any second, we have to live to taste it because they are uniques and unrepeatables. So that is when the present become an eternal source of pleasure.
GENIAL!!!
GENIAL!!!
Proust’s mother …
Proust’s mother died in September 1905She left him a considerable inheritance. (In US dollars circa 2006 was worth about $6 million, with a monthly income of about $15,000.) His health throughout this period continued to deteriorate.
Proust spent the last three years of his life confined to his cork-lined bedroom, sleeping during the day and working at night to complete his novel. He died of pneumonia in 1922. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Me too!
Me too!
The ending quote …
The ending quote sends shivers down my spine every time I listen to it.
I loved this book
I loved this book
“What he sees,and …
“What he sees,and not what he knows he ought to see “we’re held prisoner by perception,by habit and by memory which provide only pale,distorted record of the experiences it is supposed to retain.
—Proust
that was dope …
that was dope motherfucker.D O P E !!!
Excellent job!
Excellent job!
Proust can change …
Proust can change your life if living for you is living into fiction. Is way of writing is a method to reach reality. So vhen you read you learn how to touch reality behind the theater of appearence. Genius! That’s why i think it’s so important to study the Recherche at school. The most funny thing is the following misinterprétation : it’s not a borring fiction, it’s a délivrance of fiction!
I think it’s this …
I think it’s this book that descibes the individual’s first experience with Proust and how they will always remember it (irony?)and mine was at the library and I had just learned the meaning of ‘pedantic’. I asked the most snooty looking librarian what he would recommend as “great pedantic literature” (irony?). He said this book. Well, after reading de Botton, I read complete short stories of M.P. and a few more literary criticisms and then dived in. If you haven’t seen Ratatouille, you should
proustin the books …
proustin the books are a boring