In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes

In the Land of Pain

Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes

112 pages first pub 1929 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced
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As Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays “ate at the top literary table” during his lifetime (1840–1897). Henry James described him as “the happiest ...

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