Author: Alain de Botton

BOOK REVIEW: The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

Posted July 12, 2018 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 2 Comments

I picked this book this book for two reasons: one, it has images in it. Secondly, last year I remember reading Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life? which was a fascinating read on Marcel Proust with an evoking title. The Architecture of Happiness is a completely different book and while reading it I observed the same essay-like writing style from Botton’s previous work. This book if full of images and involves short chapters. It revolves around one simple question: What is beautiful building? and to provide an articulate answer author takes his readers on a tour with focus on architectural psychology and talks about the way we think about our homes, our streets.

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Marcel Proust on Reading and Dying

Posted May 18, 2015 by @amanhimself in Books, Reviews / 5 Comments

Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life? tries to find an inspiration and explore various themes out of Proust’s essays, letters, and his fictional work. So far, it succeeds to achieve its goal, it’s a clever book with an amusing and an evoking title. No prior knowledge of Proust or his epic, seven volume novel In Search of Lost Time is necessary in order to read and enjoy this book but after reading it, half of you will go for the first volume of In Search of Lost Time if you haven’t read Proust’s work before. In summer of 1922, a French newspaper formulated an elaborate question for its contributors. Marcel Proust was one of the contributors. The question asked was: An […]

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Book Review: How Proust Can Change Your Life? by Alain de Botton

Posted March 3, 2015 by @amanhimself in Reviews / 0 Comments

Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life? tries to find an inspiration and explore various themes out of Proust’s essays, letters, and his fictional work. It’s a clever book with an amusing and an evoking title. No prior knowledge of Proust or his epic, seven volume novel In Search of Lost Time is necessary in order to read and enjoy this book but after reading it, half of you will go for the first volume of In Search of Lost Time if you haven’t read Proust’s work before. How Proust Can Change Your Life? reflects not only on Proustian philosophy, but the way Proust’s life (as an habitual hypochondriac and Mama’s boy) was almost comically at odds with his logical ideas. Proust had a curiously inspiring vision […]