How Proust can change your Life

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ÂæWhat a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise, amusing as well as stimulating, and presented in so fresh a fashion as to be unique . . . I could not stop, and now much start all over again.ÂÆ Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday

ÂæDe Botton not only has a complete understanding of ProustÂÆs life . . . but what is particularly charming about this small, readable book is its tongue-in-cheek benignity, its lightly held erudition and its generous way of lending itself to what is not only the greatest book of the century but also the darkest and the most eccentricÂÆ Edmund White, Observer

ÂæIt contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction . . . de Botton, in emphasizing ProustÂÆs healing, advisory aspects, does us the service of rereading him on our behalf, providing of that vast sacred lake a sweet and lucid distillation.ÂÆ John Updike, New Yorker

ÂæDe BottonÂÆs little book is so charming, amusing and sensible that it may even itself change your life.ÂÆ Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph