How Proust Can Change Your Life

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is a significant literary work of the twentieth century, but its length can be intimidating. Alain de Botton's hilarious and unexpected Proustian manual, How Proust Can Change Your Life, distills Proust's insights about friendship, reading, being alive, and taking your time and offers valuable commentary on these topics. de Botton's rereading of Proust shows the continued relevance of his work and the rich insights he can offer us, from reinvigorating relationships to being a good host.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 07 March 2019
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

With an introduction by comedian and novelist David Baddiel

A novel in seven volumes, Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is considered a major literary work of the twentieth century. And even more crucially, one that you should have read by now. However, as one of its most distinguishing features is its staggering length, many of us feel intimidated and perhaps, even, fatigued at the thought of diving in. Alain de Botton’s hilarious and unexpected Proustian manual, is then, the perfect antidote to this problem.

In How Proust Can Change Your Life, de Botton masterfully distils what Proust says about friendship, reading, being alive and taking your time, and mixes it with his own, no less nourishing commentary. As de Botton rereads Proust for our collective benefit, we see the continued relevance of his work and the rich and varied insights he can offer us, from how to reinvigorate your relationship to being a good host. This is Proust as you’ve never seen him before. He may even change your life.

Weight: 204g
Dimension: 197 x 170 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509870691