In the land of pain
By: Alphonse Daudet ; edited and translated by Julian Barnes
Contributors: Barnes, Julian
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Daudet, Alphonse, -- 1840-1897 -- Health; Authors, French -- 19th century -- Biography; Syphilis -- Patients -- France -- Biography; Pain in literature; Syphilus in literature
Genres: Biography
Work titles: Doulou.
Description: The nineteenth-century French writer offers an account of his life as he succumbed to the pain of syphilis, detailing the symptoms of his disease, his fellow patients in search of a cure, and the impact of his physical suffering.