A review by bookwormmichelle
Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer

4.0

Snagged this fun book off Lindsay's to-read list. I enjoyed parts of this book very much; parts I thought were more forced, but overall it was great fun to explore the connections between current science and art. I personally think this book could have been expanded considerably to take into account other artists besides the very modern types profiled here, but this was an interesting start. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on Cezanne, Proust and Gertrude Stein, although about a page and a half into the Stein chapter I remember thinking "Oh, he's going to drag in Noam Chomsky, my least favorite linguist, isn't he" and then a couple of pages later, ta-da! Chomsky. LOL I'm just delighted to have found another human being who ever read Stein--they are few and far between where I live.