This seems in keeping with a book composed of reports from the field. He quotes rarely in the new book, but photographs abound - more like documentary evidence than images designed to prick the imagination. Yet the author's trademark style, with its clarity and wan detachment, is present throughout.ĭe Botton usually mixes idiosyncratic illustrations or photographs with an array of memorable quotations. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is a different sort of project, consisting of more reportage than usual, and less arch philosophical musing. F rom How Proust Can Change Your Life (1997) and The Consolations of Philosophy (2000) to The Architecture of Happiness (2006), Alain de Botton has informed, upset, annoyed, surprised and generally entertained readers.
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