In the Land of Pain Condition:Like New as well as tackle the

as well as tackle the new challenges of our time

Melissa Lee-Houghton

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In the Land of Pain Condition:Like New as well as tackle theAs Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudets La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays ate at the top literary table during his lifetime (18401897). Henry James described him as the happiest novelist and the most charming story teller of his day. Yet if Daudet dined in the highest company, he was also a member of a less enviable nineteenth century French that of literary syphilitics. In the Land of