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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.
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Yong bao si shui nian hua: Pulusite ru he gai bian ni de ren sheng = How Proust can change your life
2001, Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
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How Proust can change your life
1998, Vintage International
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How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel
April 28, 1998, Vintage
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How Proust can change your life: not a novel
1997, Pantheon Books
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