Alain de Botton's first non-fiction work was a self-help book called How [this author]
Alain de Botton's first non-fiction work was a self-help book called How [this author] Can Change Your Life. A monograph on this author arguing that he completely ignored moral considerations was written by Samuel Beckett, and discusses Beckett's own preoccupations as much as this author's. This author criticized one of his countrymen for his contradictory attitude towards Charles (*) Baudelaire in a series of essays which argued against the importance of biographical information in literary criticism. He wrote a novel beginning "For a long time, I went to bed early" whose narrator is friends with the army officer Robert de Saint-Loup and loves the deceitful Albertine. For 10 points, name this author of Contre Sainte-Beuve and In Search of Lost Time.
Alain de Botton's first non-fiction work was a self-help book called How [this author]
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