a week at the airport by alain de botton

His first book, Essays in Love, minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love. It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.' He can be contacted by email directly via He is a writer of essayistic books, which refer both to his own experiences and ideas- and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers. Bibliography: * Essays Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. It's a book of which many readers are still fondest. The style of the book was unusual, because it mixed elements of a novel together with reflections and analyses normally found in a piece of non-fiction.

It's a style of writing that has been termed a 'philosophy of everyday life.' His first book, Essays in Love, minutely analysed the process of falling in and out of love.

He makes you look at an airport places we often see just as a gateway to get to where we want to go, as a place of its own.Alain de Botton is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. He had booked the trip in the expectation of being able to enjoy his children, his wife, the Mediterranean, some spanakopita and the Attic skies, but it was evident that he would be forced to apprehend all of these through the distorting filter of his own being. David, the father, had been planning the trip for a year:Īs David lifted a suitcase on to the conveyor belt, he came to an unexpected and troubling realisation: that he was bringing himself with him on his holiday… He shows the collapse of the idealization that many people have when they travel, or at least for those who assume changing places will automatically change who they are. I love his description of a family heading out on vacation. He is a keen observer and researcher, capturing the mix of emotions that seem to be inherent in airports those in-between spaces where people are brought together momentarily because of their desire or need to go somewhere else. Along with text, it includes photographs of places such as the hallway of the hotel where he stayed, of the Ghanaian family unpacking the plasma big-screen TV they would be taking home with them, and, a place I’d never seen before -> The First-Class Lounge. The slim volume, only 107 pages, is split into four sections: Approach, Departures, Airside, and Arrivals.

A week at the airport by alain de botton