How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton
De Botton reads Proust as a self-help author: how to love life today, how to suffer successfully, how to be a good friend, how to take your time, how to open your eyes. Witty, light and a genuinely useful meditation on attention and expectation.
Read it if…
you want literature turned into life advice by someone funny.
Skip it if…
you want Proust himself; this will not substitute.
Three things you will actually use
- Suffer well: let pain teach rather than merely hurt.
- Attention transforms the ordinary.
- Expectations ruin more than events.
Do this first
Read the chapter on how to open your eyes and look at something ordinary for five minutes.
Our verdict
Proust, as self-help.
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