In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet

In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet

Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit. --Alphonse Daudet

In the Land of Pain--Alphonse Daudet's poignant, humorous, and piercing reflections on his years of enduring severe illness--is a classic in the literary annals of human suffering.

Daudet (1840-1897) was a greatly admired writer during his lifetime, praised by Dickens and Henry James. In the prime of his life, he developed an agonizing nerve disease caused by syphilis and began taking notes about his experience, published posthumously as In the Land of Pain. Daudet wrote in powerful, unflinching images about his excruciating symptoms, his fears, his desperate attempts at treatment, and the effects of the morphine he came to depend on. His novelist's eye and sense of humor did not desert him as he observed the bizarre society of his fellow patients at curative spas, nor did his generosity and compassion for them and for his friends and family. In Julian Barnes's crystalline translation, Daudet's notes comprise a record--at once shattering, haunting, and beguiling--of both the banal and the transformative realities of physical suffering.

Alphonse Daudet wurde am 13.05.1840 in Nimes/Provence geboren; er starb am 16.12.1897 in Paris.Alphonse verlebte seine Kindheit in Lyon. Nach dem Bankrott seines Vaters war er 1856 gezwungen, die Schule zu verlassen. Er arbeitete dann als Amtsdiener in Ales.1857 zog er nach Paris zu seinem alteren Bruder Ernest. Alphonse begann dort seine schriftstellerische Tatigkeit. 1860 wurde er Sekretar des Herzogs von Morny, von der Pension nach dem Tode des Herzogs konnte er seine schriftstellerische Tatigkeit finanzieren.

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ISBN 13	9781101970867
ISBN 10	1101970863
Title	In the Land of Pain
Author	Alphonse Daudet
Series	Vintage Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2016-03-22
Number of pages	112
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