- Biography, Pain in literature, Patients, Health
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.
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Grave, contemplative, character-led and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Alphonse Daudet, Julian Barnes
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 104
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Jonathan Cape, Knopf
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781784873455
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First sentence
“'What are you doing at the moment?'”
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