Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust
7 best books like Proust's Overcoat: The True Story of One Man's Passion for All Things Proust (Lorenza Foschini): Pensées, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Day, Monsieur Proust, In the Absence of Men, Pleasures and Days, Difficult Loves
| Author | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN | 0140446451 |
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal...
How Proust Can Change Your Life
| Author | Alain de Botton |
| ISBN | 0679779159 |
Words Are Your Homeland
One of the most important deficiencies in the philosophy of science (and business, which prides itself as a practical science) is the idea of efficiency of inquiry in scientific method - how to get an answer to a question at hand with the least possible effort. Efficiency...
| Author | Elie Wiesel |
| ISBN | 0809023091 |
"Not since Albert Camus has there been such an eloquent spokesman for man." --The New York Times Book Review
The publication of Day restores Elie Wiesel's original title to the novel initially published in English as The Accident and clearly establishes it as the powerful conclusion to the...
| Author | Céleste Albaret |
| ISBN | 1590170598 |
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
| Author | Philippe Besson |
| ISBN | 0786711612 |
Like Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys's to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson's extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust. It also dares to introduce an asthmatic middle-aged Proust into its masterfully manipulated...
A stunning volume of philosophical reflections, short narratives, and prose poems, Pleasures and Days provides an early glimpse into Proust’s genius as a collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Set amid the salon society of fin-du-siècle Paris, these sketches and...
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156260557 |
Difficult Loves is eleven very short stories in which Calvino is like a biologist at a microscope: analysing the sensation of a few minutes or hours in minute detail, revealing the patterns, beauty, and secrets of the mundane. They reminded me a little of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, published...
