|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
How Proust Can Change Your Life
und über 1 Million weitere Bücher verfügbar für Amazon Kindle .
Erfahren Sie mehr
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wird oft zusammen gekauft
Produktinformation
|
Mehr über den Autor
Entdecken Sie Bücher, lesen Sie über Autoren und mehr
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Alain De Botton auf Amazon
› Besuchen Sie die Seite von Alain De Botton auf Amazon
Produktbeschreibungen
Amazon.com
This is a genius-level piece of writing that manages to blend literary biography with self-help and tongue-in-cheek with the profound. The quirky, early 1900s French author Marcel Proust acts as the vessel for surprisingly impressive nuggets of wisdom on down-to-earth topics such as why you should never sleep with someone on the first date, how to protect yourself against lower back pain, and how to cope with obnoxious neighbors. Here's proof that our ancestors had just as much insight as the gurus du jour and perhaps a lot more wit. De Botton simultaneously pokes fun at the self-help movement and makes a significant contribution to its archives.
-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
From Kirkus Reviews
For the era of the self-help bestseller, novelist de Botton delivers a witty, entertaining literary appreciation of the author of Remembrance of Things Past. Can you find real-life lessons in one and a half million words spread over seven volumes, written by a hypochrondriacal asthmatic Frenchman who divided his life almost exclusively between dinner parties and bed rest? De Botton says you can, whether ``How to Love Life Today'' or ``How to Suffer Successfully.'' De Botton has self-consciously mixed genres in his fiction, e.g., biography and the novel in Kiss and Tell (1996), which hinted at his Proust worship. This blend of literary criticism by both de Botton and Proust, snippets from Remembrance of Things Past, biographic tidbits, and self-improvement pastiches is not as unserious as it appears. Proust, after all, was an almost-epigone of John Ruskin- -the embodiment of seriousness about art in one's life--as well as of philosopher Henri Bergson (who goes, thankfully, unremarked). De Botton even turns up a gem of Proust's miscellaneous criticism in an essay on the artist Chardin, whose closely observed paintings of ordinary people and objects Proust recommends as an aesthetic tonic to an imaginary depressed ``young man of limited means and artistic tastes.'' Elsewhere de Botton discusses the hang-ups of Proust's characters Mme. Verdurin and Charles Swann, Proust on love, and the verb ``to proustify'' (``to express a slightly too conscious attitude of geniality, together with what would vulgarly have been called affectations''). Quoted selectively, Proust himself proves aphoristic--``In reality, every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.'' For a painless crib, de Botton's tongue-in-cheek tract beats out Harold Bloom on the Western canon and David Denby on Great Books without even a madeleine break. (b&w illustrations, not seen) (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
-- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Welche anderen Artikel kaufen Kunden, nachdem sie diesen Artikel angesehen haben?
Vorgeschlagene Tags zu ähnlichen Produkten(Was ist das?)Setzen Sie den ersten relevanten Tag hinzu (ein Schlüsselwort, das mit diesem Produkt in engem Zusammenhang steht).
|
Kundenrezensionen
Die hilfreichsten Kundenrezensionen
3 von 3 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
How Proust Can Change Your Life is an easy read and its themes ambulate like John Cleese in The Flying Circus, however their target is always met with utmost accuracy. This is a rich and insightful book. What could have been an incomprehensible abstract mosaic turns out to be a triumphant effort to bring together Proust's eccentric life with his prolific writing. De Botton is able to touch on the paradoxical nature of humanity, alluding to the ambiguities of one of the greatest western novelists. De Botton's work is not a proscriptive self-help book. It is an account of a man struggling with life's triumphs and toils. It is a revealing account of Proust's struggles and the literature he produced as a result. De Botton never tells the reader how to deal with pain or loss, rather, he reads into his subject's life and humourously analyzies Proust's psyche. This is not an attempt to extemporize a pschology or philosophy that will enable us to deal with our vexing personal problems. It is a cogent attempt to open our minds to those problems and ambuguities that we may feel are abnormal, making them more normal. It is an intransigent work that is sanguine and lucid. A book full of irony and humor that I have read cover to cover and still pick up for a good laugh and pick-me-up. Highly recommended!
2 von 2 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
A reviewer wrote- "I'ts hard to imagine how Proust can change your life if you don't actually read Proust". That is true, but then on the other hand, never, while reading this book, did I get the impression that Alain de Botton was trying to replace Proust. I don't think he was trying to offer a guide to Proust, nor trying to write literary criticism or anything like that: After finishing the book, the impression I got was that this is more a self-help book (and quite a witty and funny one, actually, much better than the usual saccharine-sweet self help books) and less a book about Proust. The good thing is that "How Proust can change your life" will probably give you an appetite for more Marcel Proust...and that has to do with the clarity and lightness of touch with which de Botton writes: you can't resist his admiration for Proust, even though you might have objections to the way he chose to express this admiration: but then who says that books about philosophy or about literature have to be dead serious and heavy? I think Alain de Botton has written an original book, a book that's a kind of experiment, as it combines self-help insights with good literature and important ideas. If you read this as such, as an interesting experiment which may bring more people to Proust, then you won't really be able to find any fault in the book.
Format:Taschenbuch
One of the greatest books I've ever read.
It's intellectually stimulating, without pretending to be 'more Catholic than the Pope'. A clever and witty tribute to the grandmaster, rather than pure academic boasting.
This is a sublime source of inspiration and an ingenious page-turner.
I adore Proust. Nonetheless--and for that very reason--I thoroughly enjoyed it.
It's intellectually stimulating, without pretending to be 'more Catholic than the Pope'. A clever and witty tribute to the grandmaster, rather than pure academic boasting.
This is a sublime source of inspiration and an ingenious page-turner.
I adore Proust. Nonetheless--and for that very reason--I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Möchten Sie weitere Rezensionen zu diesem Artikel anzeigen?
Waren diese Rezensionen hilfreich?
Wir wollen von Ihnen hören.
Die neuesten Kundenrezensionen
Question...
I've read some of de Botton's other works, but having no prior experience with philosophy, was hesitant about this book, for the following reason: I know nothing about Proust. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Wonderful, smart, a lover of books AND life
Not that De Botton needs my 5 stars, he seems to be a power force of his own. But I just closed this book and loved it from start to finish. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Listening to Alain de Botton's Proust tapes changed my life
And those of my friends, to whom I lent them. Perfectly recorded, and perfect for listening to in the car while confronting life's little obstacles: traffic, potholes, red lights,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. März 2000 von Laurence Jarvik
Roll uproll up, tickets for the great Proust adventure here
This book has been ludicrously dismissed as 'facile' by sniffy snobs. The dismaying fact remains that in this age of overcrowding media vying for our attention, you have to be... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. März 2000 von darragh o'donoghue
philosophy for mortals
It's amazing, I read this book years ago an still remember it very vividly. Philosophy is usually not my kind of thing, but Alain de Botton makes for a very enjoyable and... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
A little gem
Delightful read, a fine example of how to carry erudition lightly and convey it with authority and elegance. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Januar 2000 veröffentlicht
Superb read
This is a brilliant book. Written with great humour and understated but piercing intelligence, its a really enjoyable work that riffs off Proust with dazzling style. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Januar 2000 von Peter Kemp-Welch
A delight
Like a conversation with your most witty, inspired and charming friend, this book is a delight.
Veröffentlicht am 27. Januar 2000 von Anna Camel
A gem of a book
There are few works of literary criticism that have touched me as much as this one. Botton brings a lightness of touch to the deepest ideas, and what shines through is how funny... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Januar 2000 von Julia Newhouse
Charming But Slight
This little book is an enjoyable way to pass some time, but is no substitute for the real thing. I just hope a few people who read it do end up eventually tackling Proust's... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Kunden diskutieren
|
Das Forum zu diesem Produkt
Fragen stellen, Meinungen austauschen, Einblicke gewinnen Aktive Diskussionen in ähnlichen Foren
Kundendiskussionen durchsuchen
|
Ähnliche Foren
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lieblingslisten
|
|
Ähnliche Artikel finden
Anhand des Sachgebietes nach ähnlichen Produkten suchen:
Ihr Kommentar
Möchten Sie die Produktinformationen aktualisieren oder Feedback zu den Produktabbildungen geben?
|
