Alain de Botton was born in Zurich, Switzerland in 1969 and now lives in London. He is a writer of essayistic books that have been described as a ‘philosophy of everyday life.’ He’s written on love, travel, architecture and literature. His books have been bestsellers in 30 countries.
Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education. Alain’s latest book will be published in April 2016 and is titled The Course of Love.
Alain started writing at a young age. His first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], was published when he was twenty-three.
In Edinburgh, a couple, Rabih and Kirsten, fall in love. They get married. They have children. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning.
From the author of Essays in Love comes the long-awaited and beguiling sequel, which charts the complex and intricate course of a long-term relationship.
We all know the headiness and excitement of love’s early days, but what can be expected over a shared lifetime? We follow our couple – Rabih and Kristen – from the first flush of infatuation through to inevitable disenchantments and then onto the freedom and insights of maturity. The Course of Love is a novel that explores not so much the start of love, as its maintenance over time; the way our ideals bend and reform under the pressures of an average existence, and the magnificent, sometimes frightening, developments we can make as we slowly realise that love is in essence a skill we need to learn rather than an enthusiasm we simply experience.
Playful, wise, and profoundly moving, The Course of Love is an unparalleled meditation on modern relationships —and a delightful return to the novel for Alain, more than 20 years after Essays in Love.
关于婚姻的随笔小说。 第三人称上帝式的视角,每写一段情节再来一段心理学家评述式的话语。情节极其简单,但是写作的细节足够细腻,而且翻译也有一点韵味,值得一读。 最开始阅读这本书是因为看这本书的梗概说里面有婚外情但最终婚姻却更进一步,我想知道夫妻两人是如何做到这...
评分爱的进化论 阿兰·德波顿 76个笔记 从此,他们过上了幸福的生活?——译者序 随笔作家。据我个人的理解,所谓随笔作家,就是既能抓住人类生存的各种重大主题,又能以如话家常的亲切方式对这些主题进行讨论的作家。 爱的本质,与其说是一份激情热忱,还不如说是一种需要学习的技...
评分 评分爱的进化论 阿兰·德波顿 76个笔记 从此,他们过上了幸福的生活?——译者序 随笔作家。据我个人的理解,所谓随笔作家,就是既能抓住人类生存的各种重大主题,又能以如话家常的亲切方式对这些主题进行讨论的作家。 爱的本质,与其说是一份激情热忱,还不如说是一种需要学习的技...
“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don’t. This might even be one of the main points of literature: to tell us what society at large is too prudish to explore.” “Neither he nor she has to be perfect, he reflects; they only need to give each other the odd sign they know they can sometimes be quite hard to live with.”
评分婚姻真实的样子。接受别人和自己的不完美
评分“Ideally, art would give us the answers that other people don’t. This might even be one of the main points of literature: to tell us what society at large is too prudish to explore.” “Neither he nor she has to be perfect, he reflects; they only need to give each other the odd sign they know they can sometimes be quite hard to live with.”
评分There is no such person over the long term. We are too varied and peculiar....
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