Essays in Love Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual, but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the emotions involved in the relationship are analysed.
Cast in the form of a series of academic essays, the novel analyses each stage of the affair and considers just what is this thing called love. De Botton calculates the probability of falling love at first sight on a British Airways flight (one chance in 5840.82).Essays in Love. Extract. 1. It is one of the ironies of love that it is easiest confidently to seduce those who we are least attracted to. My feelings for Chloe meant I lost any belief in my own worthiness.Buy Essays in Love Unabridged by Alain De Botton, James Wilby (ISBN: 9781531871918) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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The bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life revisits his utterly charming debut book, Essays in Love.The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a Paris-to-London flight, and by the time they've reached the luggage carousel he knows he is in love. He loves her chestnut hair, watery green eyes, the gap that makes her teeth Kantian and not Platonic, and.
Essays in Love a Novel Alain De Botton Charting the progress of an affair, from first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to anxiety, this is a wholly modern attempt to define the age-old dilemmas of the heart by detailing the highs and lows of contemporary romance.
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.
Alain De Botton encapsulates his many experiences in love in one relationship between a 'fictional' man and woman. The relationship is narrated first-hand from the man's point of view (or the author's) and recounts all the ups and downs that they face, and then looks at them philosophically, critically, trying to understand why they occurred in the first place.