How Proust can change your life
/ Alain de Botton
- New York : Pantheon Books , c1997.
- vii, 197 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
"A self-help manual for the intelligent person" ("The New York Times Book Review"), this stylish, erudite, and frequently hilarious book dips deeply into Marcel Proust's life and work to uncover a font of wonderful advice on such subjects as cultivating friendships, suffering successfully, and recognizing love.