How Proust Can Change Your Life

出版者:Picador USA

作者:[英] 阿兰·德波顿

页数:215

出版时间:2006-1-20

价格:USD 24.90

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780330354912

具体描述

The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for a sustained investigation into the power and significance of literature. Proust’s novel, almost a byword for obscurity and irrelevance, emerges as an invaluable source of insight into the workings of love, society, art and the meaning of existence.

The book reveals Proust’s thoughts on how to revive a relationship, choose a good doctor, enjoy a holiday, make friends and respond to insult. A vivid portrait of the eccentric yet deeply sympathetic author is built up out of extracts from his letters, essays and fiction and is combined with a commentary on the power of literature to change our lives. A self-help book like few others.(extracted from Alaindebotton.com)

作者简介

Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London.

He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.'

(extracted from Alaindebotton.com)

读后感

周六的天空灰暗阴沉，如灰色的绒布遮住了阳光和云朵，适合蜗居在家中，我干脆连床都不下捧起《拥抱逝水年华》从起床看到下午，天阴也感觉不到时间的流逝。经常看的咯咯笑起来，有时感觉找到了志同道合者，有时为那些逸事感到惊奇。 先说一下书名，我认为翻译的很到位，虽然与英...  

2004年4月上海译文出版社重磅出版阿兰·德波顿平装本文集：《爱情笔记》、《哲学的慰藉》、《旅行的艺术》、《亲吻与述说》、《爱上浪漫》、《拥抱逝水年华》一套6本，当年5月，译文出版社盛邀德波顿本人访华，引起国内读者极大关注，之后相继推出《身份的焦虑》、《幸福的建筑...  

知道德伯顿是因为一篇关于旅行的文章，大概是叫《旅行的艺术》，不知道是不时后来同名的散文集中的一篇。号称英伦才子，拉杂、优雅、舒徐有致的语言风格，厚实而内敛的资料，都叫人觉得新京报的专栏作家太偷懒了（因为没有知识全是午睡后的口水），而沈宏非太土（因为他恨不得...  

我们每每说得到了就会珍惜，最后却总是失去才知原来未曾珍惜到拥有。 在网上看到这样一句话：愿得一人心白首不相离，觉得好温暖。 天气变凉，广州的气候一下子由初夏转至深秋，我已把自己裹得像冬天里的小刺猬，全副武装。 这本书是给东和我借的，在图书馆找了半个小时的书，...  

读德波顿的书是种奇怪的感觉，阅读时全心投入感慨万千，一切结束之后我就无比沮丧起来。在书中他写到伍尔芙读完【追忆似水年华】的感觉，正像自己读完【拥抱逝水年华】：要是能写得像他那么好多好啊。伍尔芙说【追忆似水年华】像一片沼泽般令她望而却步，她害怕自己若沉下去...  

用户评价

interesting...

一直以来对德波顿不感冒，但是这本书作为《追忆》的“读后感”来看的话，有他有意思的地方。不仅仅因为提供了一些可作谈资的普鲁斯特的八卦，而且也分享了一些读书及其他观念的角度问题。书的最后讲到不要让一本好书禁锢你，让你变得沉默，这其实也是我经常会遇到的困惑。

生活也许不会有什么改变，只是读的很舒服。

结论就是，不能对阿兰德波顿投以学术性的期待。╮(╯▽╰)╭

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