'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise, amusing as well as stimulating, and presented in so fresh a fashion as to be unique . . . I could not stop, and now much start all over again.' Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday 'De Botton not only has a complete understanding of Proust's life . . . but what is particularly charming about this small, readable book is its tongue-in-cheek benignity, its lightly held erudition and its generous way of lending itself to what is not only the greatest book of the century but also the darkest and the most eccentric' Edmund White, Observer 'It contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction . . . de Botton, in emphasizing Proust's...
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2012-07-04
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Det är ganska bra att läsa den här boken när man kanske bara läst Proust etta och tvåa. Man funderar över vad en polomössa kan tänkas vara och om hur Albertine var.
2010-01-19
Betyg
Rätt trevlig. Känns dock "viktad" till litteraturvetare och litteraturhistoriker vilket gör att det ibland känns lite som kurslitteratur på universitetet. På plussidan finner vi intressanta och ibland roliga anekdoter samt ett lärorikt sätt att ta sig an Prousts "På spaning efter den tid som flytt".
