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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Reading is healing.
Chapter 3: Slowing our reading teaches us to savor everyday life.
Chapter 4: Proust urges us not to take love for granted.
Chapter 5: Viewing the world through an artist’s lens helps us find beauty in the ordinary everyday.
Chapter 6: Proust offers counsel for almost every occasion.
Description
How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) melds literary biography with a self-help structure to argue that reading the work of twentieth-century French author Marcel Proust is not only culturally enriching, but potentially life-enhancing. Botton’s close reading of Proust’s masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, offers up surprising and delightful insights into how to live better.
Who Should Listen
- Voracious readers who have yet to embark on In Search of Lost Time
- Reluctant readers who’d like to read more than they currently do
- Anyone looking to take on a literary challenge