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A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).
Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
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Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.
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12) Marcel Proust
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English
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Critical essays on the work of Marcel Proust, major twentieth-century French novelist.
15) Marcel Proust
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Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Celebrates the life and work of the prominent twentieth-century French writer, and considers the intellectual and social universe that fed Proust's art.
18) Swann's way
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English
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Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.
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The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The seventy-five folios and other unpublished manuscripts contains early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's work and the "sacred moment" when his genius blossomed"--