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by Alphonse Daudet (Author), Julian Barnes (Editor, Translator)
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  • Hardcover: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; 1st Edition edition (23 May 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224062670
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224062671
  • Product Dimensions: 18.4 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 337,311 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of the most popular nineteenth-century French novelists, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. What few except those close to him knew was that for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer knew was that for the last dozen years of his life he kept an intimate notebook in which he recorded the inevitable development and terrifying effects of the disease. He described the often alarming treatments he took in the desperate attempt to defeat the disease, and wrote with comic zest about life in the spa-towns to which he was sent for a cure. Even for a time when we are more openly confessional about illness, Daudet remains exemplary and instructive, both in his lucid self-examination and in his amused stoicism. In the Land of Pain was first published by Daudet's widow in 1931. Julian Barnes brings us the first English translation of this surprising, touching, and at times brutal masterpiece.


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A forgotten classic - revived and translated by Julian Barnes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nightmare stuff, 1 Oct 2009
I'm afraid I've never read anything else by Alphonse Daudet and I bought this book largely because it was edited / translated by Julian Barnes, thinking that Barnes is always worth listening to on France and French writers. The book is basically Daudet's notes on the progression of the tertiary syphilis that went on to kill him in 1897 and I doubt I've ever read a more frightening depiction of illness. The symptoms Daudet describes are pervasive, devastating and progressive - and the effects of some of the attempted cures and palliatives he tried are very nearly as bad. Despite the brutal circumstances under which he wrote, Daudet's observations of himself and his fellow sufferers are sometimes hilarious and always memorable. Daudet was apparently an affable and considerate patient right up to the end but he never lapses into easy moralising about the improving effects of pain. He also makes it clear that while chronic suffering can rapidly become a bore for the patient's family, it's always presenting something new to the patient. Barnes' translation never sounds like a translation and his notes and appendixes are well up to his usual high standard. I think I'll never be able to forget this book.
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