Alain De Botton Kiss And Tell Essay.
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Or however old you were when you wrote Essays in Love? DE BOTTON: Well, I think that fame is a problematic thing. It’s a really big ambition for many people to want to be famous. I think often what people really want is love, kindness, respect, community. And oddly enough, none of these things are really offered to you via fame.
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Botton establishes a comical ambiance between the daughter and her parents, by creating a situation that many can relate to, by way of dialogue. Isabel faces an embarrassing, as well as common, circumstance, the presence of her parents when she desires it the least.
Essays In Love is an iconic book - one that should be read by anyone who has ever fallen in love. PRAISE FOR ALAIN DE BOTTON 'The book's success has much to do with its beautifully modelled sentences, its wry humour and its unwavering deadpan respect for its reader's intelligence. .. full of keen observation and flashes of genuine lyricism, acuity and depth.'.
De Botton's other novels include The Romantic Movement: Sex, Shopping and the Novel, which is written in a similar style to Essays on Love, and Kiss and Tell, which follows a would-be biographer as he attempts to write the life story of the first person he encounters. The Course of Love is his latest novel and is on the bestsellers list.
Alain De Botton was born in 1969. He is the author of The Romantic Movement, Kiss and Tell, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philsophy, The Art of Travel and Status Anxiety. His work is translated into 20 languages.
