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The piece is merely a lift of two pages from de Botton's two-year-old book How Proust Can Change Your Life with a 1999 tack-on.
) The book, they say, is a witty sendup of therapeutic literature, and it also serves as a "seriously legitimate guide for the perplexed" (Benito Rakower, the Washington Post ). Critics also recommend it as a sort of highbrow Cliff's Notes : "You don't need to have read Proust in order to read this book; in fact, once you've read de Botton you don't need to read it at all" (Richard Klein, Voice Literary Supplement ).
This naturally has sparked a heated debate in France, where attempts to "democratize Proust" affront French custodianship of high culture.
And now for some comic relief: The NYT Arts section reports that French literary great Marcel Proust has just joined company with Asterix and Tintin.
One is entitled to speculate on what outrageous proposal the narrator had made in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2—Cities of the Plain (translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff—Modern Library, N.Y., 1934, Page 90) to cause the Duchess to say, “Apart from your balls, can't I be of any use to you?”