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Christopher Prendergast: Living and Dying With Marcel Proust

The Book Club

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How to Read a Book and Cure Your Addiction

Three examples of people who have read priest to cure their problems. One suffers from chronic insomnia, another has asthma and the third falls in love with something beautiful - but can't unhook herself from it. But these are just three cases out of a multi-dimensional history of reading priest. The novel could have been now used to those particular ends. I think these are terrific tales, but they do not add up to my view of the function of reading prust as therapeutic. Yes, i meano.

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