An awful lot of time is spent looking at the beginning of a relationship, but instead this book looks at the years thereafter. It considers the trials and tribulations of a married couple, Rabih and Kirsten, and how their relationship deals with hurdles throughout the years. The book’s written fro...
“To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.” Quote from one of Proust’s books, In “How Proust Can Change Your Life” by Alain de Botton “Even ...
There are a few conclusions after I read this book: long-lasting relationships involve hard-work, don't get married :) , talk with each other or go to therapy. The book has an almost hollywoodian ending.
There is a certain, unspoken list of writers and philosophers whose work is deemed a necessary read in academic circles, Proust being one of them. Luckily I was assigned to read this one for a French cultural studies course, glad to finally be able to learn more about what specifically makes Proust ...
bookshelves: published-2016, philosophy, net-galley, e-book, winter-20152016 Read from February 14 to 15, 2016 Description: Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. Over the years this ordinary couple w...
Spłaszczenie i zbanalnienie powieści Prousta przez wyciągnięcie z niej wniosków, które można było równie dobrze wyciągnąć z paru (wielu) innych powieści. No, nie wiem, nawet mnie to nie zirytowało, bo nigdzie nie było tam nieprawdy, tylko same truizmy i klisze. Lepiej porozmawiać o Prouście z kimś b...
This is not what we could call a "genuine" choice in the subject, but the literary result of a convenient offer from the director of BAA, a company which manages Heathrow's Airport (the so-called Terminal 5). He in fact has proposed to Alain De Botton a one week stay in the airport to allow to his T...
Z trzech przeczytanych przeze mnie książek tego autora niewątpliwie najsłabsza pozycja. Niestety nie widać tu lekkiego, wciągającego stylu anglojęzycznych eseistów. Może po prostu formuła się trochę wyczerpała i kolejne pozycje pisane są już na siłę i taśmowo? Spotkanie z de Bottonem warto zacząć mo...
This is going to be a hard book to review. Not because it is bad, per se, but because I'm not sure what to review it as. See, on the one hand, these are philosophical essays, so obviously there's the question of what I thought and whether they provided interesting insights, and the answer to that ...
With the gentlest and kindest mockery possible, de Botton makes a very strong case for celebrating and learning from the unlikeliest of teachers: Marcel Proust.In Shikasta Doris Lessing's extraterrestrial protagonist describes Proust as a great sociologist and anthropologist, which chimes with de Bo...
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