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Lädt ... How Proust Can Change Your Life (Original 1997; 1998. Auflage)von Alain De Botton (Autor)
Werk-InformationenWie Proust Ihr Leben verändern kann. Eine Anleitung. von Alain de Botton (1997)
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 1   iffland | Jul 19, 2010 | 
 One doesn't usually think of Marcel Proust as the author of a great self-help book. Unless of course what you admire most about ''Remembrance of Things Past'' is its usefulness for killing huge amounts of time. Alain de Botton, a novelist, doesn't take quite such a crassly utilitarian view in his delightfully original work of literary criticism, ''How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel.'' But he does come close in places. For instance, in Chapter 3, called ''How to Take Your Time,'' he points out that one reaction to the great length of Proust's famous novel was the ''All-England Summarize Proust Competition,'' once presented by the Monty Python troupe in the belief, as Mr. de Botton puts it, that ''what had originally taken seven volumes to express could reasonably be condensed into 15 seconds or less, without too great a loss of integrity or meaning, if only an appropriate candidate could be found.'' . . . Gehört zu VerlagsreihenIst gekürzt inAuszeichnungenBemerkenswerte Listen
The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time as the basis for a sustained investigation into the power and significance of literature. Proust's novel, almost a byword for obscurity and irrelevance, emerges as an invaluable source of insight into the workings of love, society, art and the meaning of existence.The book reveals Proust's thoughts on how to revive a relationship, choose a good doctor, enjoy a holiday, make friends and respond to insult. A vivid portrait of the eccentric yet deeply sympathetic author is built up out of extracts from his letters, essays and fiction and is combined with a commentary on the power of literature to change our lives. A self-help book like few others. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)843.912Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1900-1945Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (3.68)
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Ich werde mich der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit sicherlich noch annehmen, denn jetzt weiß ich warum ich das tun könnte oder sollte.
Wer direkt Antworten auf folgende Fragen sucht, muss trotzdem selber denken, aber weiß zumindest was Proust damals dachte, bzw. weiß was Botton denkt, das Proust dachte:
Wie man das Leben heute liebt?
Wie man richtig liest?
Wie man sich Zeit nimmt?
Wie man erfolgreich lediet?
Wie man seinen Gefühlen Ausdruck verleiht?
Wie man Freundschaften pflegt?
Wie man sehen lernt?
Wie man in der Liebe glücklich wird?
Wie man ein Buch aus der Hand legt? (