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Book reviews: In the Land of Pain: Voices lost in memoirs of syphilis

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From: Scotland on Sunday
Date: 20020519
Author:Andrew Biswell

In the Land of Pain Alphonse Daudet, translated by Julian Barnes

Jonathan Cape, 10 pounds

ALPHONSE Daudet was unlucky to have contracted syphilis at the age of just 17, but it was an illness he had in common with other prominent French writers of the 19th century, including Charles Baudelaire, Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. The disease remained dormant for more than 20 years, during which time Daudet built a reputation as a writer of pastoral and satirical novels, including the well-known Lettres de Mon Moulin. As his health began to fail in the early 1880s, he decided to record his ...

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