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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.
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Character-led, warm, spare and contemplative.
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Alain De Botton
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Vintage International, Picador, Xian jue chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780679779155
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