Alphonse Daudet
Praise for In the Land of Pain
Barnes...has given Daudet a startling resurrection
New York Times
A new translation of a forgotten pocket masterpiece by a forgotten pocket French writer, a very short, moving, book about pain
Observer
Vivid and impressionistic, it reads at times like a list of symptoms, at times like a sort of macabre prose poem… It looks like a slight book, but Daudet's eloquence is dynamite
Evening Standard
Barnes...has given Daudet a startling resurrection
New York Times
A new translation of a forgotten pocket masterpiece by a forgotten pocket French writer, a very short, moving, book about pain
Observer
Vivid and impressionistic, it reads at times like a list of symptoms, at times like a sort of macabre prose poem… It looks like a slight book, but Daudet's eloquence is dynamite
Evening Standard
Barnes...has given Daudet a startling resurrection
New York Times
A new translation of a forgotten pocket masterpiece by a forgotten pocket French writer, a very short, moving, book about pain
Observer
Vivid and impressionistic, it reads at times like a list of symptoms, at times like a sort of macabre prose poem… It looks like a slight book, but Daudet's eloquence is dynamite
Evening Standard