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Ален де Боттон "Как Пруст может изменить вашу жизнь"

There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness.

Пруст не только может, но и, почти наверняка, изменит вашу жизнь, если вы внимательно, не торопясь, смакуя каждую фразу, прочитаете 200 страниц этого мудрого и стильного текста.

Взяв за основу жизнь и произведения Пруста, Ален де Боттон учит нас, ненавязчиво и очень умно, тому, как все-таки, несмотря ни на что, можно поменять отношение к очень важным в жизни вещам.

Полный восторг и огромное уважение автору.

И бонус - много интересных фактов из жизни Пруста.

It now seems that as if the magnitude of Proust's misfortunes should not be allowed to cast doubt on the validity of his ideas, indeed, it is the very extent of his suffering that we should take to be evidence of the perfect precondition for insights. It is when we hear that Proust's lover died in a plane crash off the coast of Antibes, that Stendhal endured a series of agonizing unrequited passions and that Nietzsche was a social outcast taunted by schoolboys, that we can be reassured of having discovered valuable intellectual authorities. It is not the contented or the glowing who have left most of the profound testimonies of what it means to be alive. It seems that such knowledge has usually been the privileged preserve of, and the only blessing granted to, the violently miserable.