pickGently humorous short book on how Proust viewed topics like suffering, expressing emotions, being a friend, seeing beauty in ordinary things, etc. Very readable.
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pickGently humorous short book on how Proust viewed topics like suffering, expressing emotions, being a friend, seeing beauty in ordinary things, etc. Very readable.
I am still not actually reading Proust but books that refer to it. Also I am trying to learn some French in case I can do it that way, but I like the language anyway since English is so much made from it.
1. How Proust Can Change Your Life and Emma
2. Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
3. Middlemarch?
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It is not the contented or the glowing who have left many of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.
Preparing for my 2020 Proust read by getting into the Proustian frame of mind.
pickA great work of literary criticism which rejuvenated the genre in 1997. Proust as a guidebook to life won‘t be an unfamiliar concept to those already acquainted with his work, but to see it taken on so deftly is a joy. It‘s also very funny!
Bargain bookshop bargain. I feel more intelligent just for owning it 😆🤓
I've just started this, but am enchanted already by both Proust and De Botton. Written in 1997, it's still fresh and relevant today. Some chapter titles: How to live life today, How to read for yourself, How to open your eyes...
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