by Alain de Botton · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330354912
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«How Proust Can Change Your Life» is Alain de Botton's essay, published by Picador in paperback (215 pages, in English).
Drawing on the life and work of Marcel Proust, Alain de Botton presents the French writer as an unusual guide for coping with everyday life. The book addresses love, friendship, reading, art, and the search for happiness in an accessible, ironic, and informative tone that brings Proust's ideas to the contemporary reader.
Edition published in January 2006 in the Picador Classic series, with an introduction by David Baddiel.
Recommended for curious readers who want to approach Proust's work through a short, accessible essay.
Alain de Botton is a Swiss-born British author and public speaker. His books discuss various contemporary subjects and themes, emphasizing philosophy's relevance to everyday life. He published Essays in Love (1993), which went on to sell two million copies. Other bestsellers include How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997), Status Anxiety (2004), and The Architecture of Happiness (2006).
