How Proust Can Change Your Life

Name: How Proust Can Change Your Life
Author: Alain de Botton

by Alain de Botton

Life lessons and aesthetic insights drawn from novelist Proust's work

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Alain de Botton

Swiss-British essayist and popularizer of philosophy whose The Consolations of Philosophy applied the ancient Stoics, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche to modern anxieties. How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Architecture of Happiness examine how art, literature, and buildings shape human happiness.

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