How Proust Can Change Your Life
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
| Author | Alain de Botton |
|---|---|
| Published | 1997 |
| Pages | 208 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | De Botton reads In Search of Lost Time as a self-help book, chapter by chapter — how to take your time, how to suffer successfully, how to be a good friend. A demonstration that a novel can be read as practical instruction, and the cheapest available route into Proust. |
Where I heard about it
- The replies to @SpencrGreenberg — named in his thread asking “What non-fiction book taught you the most about how the world (or how humanity or society) really works?” (June 2025); the full list is on A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet).
Connections
- A question for you — What non-fiction… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Alain de Botton — the author.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.