About suffering stemming from the work of to Alain de Botton book encouraged me Masthead - sensitive Barbarian (whose owner, Thomas Brzozowski appears in commercials soups powder). De Botton climbed the popularity of reaching for the theme of happiness, conscious traveling, and simple living. The text on the cover of leaves unsaid:
gained worldwide fame as the creator of the brilliant, revealing and witty book essay called "philosophy of everyday life," which have become bestsellers in many countries. In his extensive intellectual exploration touches on the main concerns of modern man ... encountering
traveling art and architecture of happiness
in księgarence Tenant - an uncompromising place in trading only good literature - it was an additional recommendation.
Everything would have gone well, the books I read and quickly forgotten (indeed I forget about everything what I read: it gives me the unique opportunity to study the same number of times before and with the same interest), if not for curiosity. I began to look about as generous to readers, and previously unknown to me the author. That's what I found, confirmed an old truth: creativity does not necessarily correspond to this, what kind of man is the author. You can paint landscapes and blissful cigarette scorch wife / husband.
reading De Botton gives a lot of pleasure that comes from the fact that the reader agrees with the views of the author. Capable of intelligent observations open eye on things so far unrecognized cause a sigh: "no no, I think the same way! Why have not written / not written. " For example, why travel is so important. Because it is important to the introduction of government thinking in a light state of confusion. It calms down when something is happening outside the window of the train, where the landscape is moving, where you can hang the eye. Then we do not feel the need to act, because going by itself. Everyone agrees with that apart from those who say "no" in principle, for everything. And all these delicious stories as unrealized English trip Des
Esseintes in the topsy-turvy Huysmans, Flaubert and dreaming of Egypt, and finally reaching him as frail physique and odd steps entering Wordsworth held daily hikes in the Lake! Such writing gives relaxation and entertainment, and something else that contributes to the incredible popularity of De Botton.
This is not writing a particularly thrilling or engaging, the author wrestles with his demons. Cling to things. He noticed a long blond hair at the head of the bed and pondered over the fact that its owner (or owner) resides now on another continent. Objectively and without elation. De Botton gives readers something important: transforms us into his accomplices. We also lie dormant in the writers, since we have such thoughts as he is. It gives us proof that we belong to higher caste people literate culture.
Son principal banker Rothschilds Bank in Zurich, comes from a family of Sephardic Jews, descended from Castile. In the age of eight he was sent to boarding school in England, then studied history and philosophy at Cambridge. He speaks French, German and English. Before he took up the essays, he wrote something like a novel. It is film producer, journalist, committed to raising issues, as well as architecture. His most famous works are:
How Proust can change your life (1997), and O
pocieszeniach offered Philosophy (2000), referring explicitly to Boethius. Do not use the assets left by his father, keeps up with the writing.
Readers either love him or ridicule. Praise: the philosophy and literature closer to people. Allegations: found a way to slamming books, Band, part of the culture guidance "as live" using for this purpose "serious" philosophy and literature.
In 2009 he won the competition and became a writer in residence at London's Heathrow. Lodging week spent at the airport to observe flow and flow of travelers. The fruit-specific experience became a book - what else -
week at the airport. Readers have mixed feelings. What can I say, even if someone on the way to the subject of direct sponsorship of creative activity - this is embarrassing. Especially that Heathrow was very keen on building good image when reconstructed spectacular slip occurred. But on the other - a bit of fun: be the official writer of the airport. De Botton stood somewhat in the tradition in which artists found themselves ... church, or courtiers, used the old authorities, such as Hans Holbein the Younger and Francisco Goya. As you can see, this line of tradition is not poskąpiła masterpieces.
In the same 2009 years De Bottonowi nerves gave way and wrote on the blog:
I hate you to death. explosion was provoked by a review by Caleb Crain in The New York Times. Just read a few sentences to realize that the De Botton radically departed from the position wrażliwca and intellectual dandy, which he used to take.
This review provoked by the almost manic desire to denigrate the author and perverse to deprive it of any value. unprecedented explosion came from the fact that the bad reviews affect sales of the book
Pleasures and Sorrows of Work . Essayist, wrote to Craig:
you killed my book in the United States. ... Two years of work landed in the trash because of the unfortunate text to 900 words .
And even though you can soar with the impression the words
I hate you to death , they are somehow justified. Artists do not have to defend themselves before the reviewers. What if the reviewer is caused by ill-will, has a bad mood? Steers the work of denying him the right to any value? What do you do when a reviewer does not have talent, sensitivity, tact? They are, as you can see still places in the world where the critics can harm the vital interests of artists. Question of the border - which way it goes Separation review flowing out of ill will from that which takes it in the real drawbacks of the work.
But the case is really so simple? Reviewers do not have an easy life, after all. What may even be more sensitive to health podupaść confronted with a dilemma: to deprive the artist decent living, because he was unable to work or not - and thus to deny his own business as a critic. Subtract the bread from paragraph artist's children? Perhaps the work of De Botton is in the eyes of Crain very bad and he expresses it without a hint of malice - or even give the author a chance to the future took the comments to heart and improved.
with this whole affair most amusing to me that the writer revealed the violent reaction so directly and bluntly financial background literature for pięknoduchów.
PS
Arts travel is quite nice, inspiring book, if swallow the author's habit of focusing on yourself and light a lack of sense of humor. I like especially the idea of \u200b\u200ba guide who would be established according to personal interests goers, not by the established hierarchy of monuments and other essential facilities See you at the site.
www.alaindebotton.com
