DID PROUST CHANGE MY LIFE?
DID PROUST CHANGE MY LIFE? Mary Jane and I loved Alain de Bouton’s HOW PROUST CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. We gave it to friends. Yet it was not until I heard Laurence Grenier give a couple talks on Proust that I was moved to begin reading REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. I was never moved to tears by the book that was my daily companion for many months. But the book did do what I said my favorite paintings do: it changed the way I looked at life. I think of Proust as a person—restricted by illness—who experienced with great intensity the life he was permitted. And he wrote beautifully about how he experienced that life—and how to experience life.