Alphonse Daudet was een Franse romanschrijver wiens werken zich vaak verdiepen in de complexiteit van de menselijke natuur en maatschappelijke illusies. Met een meesterlijk oog voor detail en een ironische afstand creëert hij personages die worstelen met ambitie, verlangen en de dagelijkse beslommeringen van het leven. Zijn stijl wordt gekenmerkt door levendigheid, muzikaliteit en een vermogen om het ritme van de Franse taal te vangen. Daudets proza verkent thema's als eenzaamheid, sociale klim en -val en ongrijpbare dromen, waarbij vaak de bitterzoete waarheden van het bestaan worden onthuld.
Set against the backdrop of maritime life, this classic tale follows an old boat and its crew, exploring themes of adventure and camaraderie. The narrative captures the essence of human history and the significance of preserving such stories. The modern republication by Alpha Editions ensures that the text is clear and accessible for contemporary readers, offering a refreshed format while honoring the original work. This effort highlights the importance of keeping literary treasures alive for future generations.
The book has historical significance and has been out of print for many years. To ensure its preservation and accessibility, it has been meticulously reformatted and retyped into a modern format, making it clear and readable for current and future readers. This effort highlights the importance of keeping valuable works alive in contemporary times.
This complete edition of Alphonse Daudet's classic offers readers an immersive experience into the author's rich storytelling and vivid characterizations. The work captures the essence of 19th-century French society, exploring themes of love, loss, and the complexities of human emotions. Daudet's masterful prose invites readers to delve into the intricacies of his characters' lives, reflecting the beauty and struggles of their world. A must-read for those interested in classic literature and historical narratives.
"Nothing could be more shocking to Jean Gaussin, a serious young student from the provinces, than the moral swamp his mistress has been living in before they met. Sculptor's model, poet's muse, Fanny Legrand has seen and done it all in the twenty years since her first lover, Caoudal, cast in bronze the girl from the Paris gutter and named her Sappho. But revulsion is no match for lust; and little by little, despite continual outbreaks of rage and jealousy, Jean is able to live with Fanny's disgraceful past, to find a certain pleasure in the degraded domesticity of their life together and even to feel a degree of pride in his new connections with famous men. The arrival on the scene of a marriageable young girl seems to offer Jean the escape route he needs: but he cannot bring himself to deal his aging mistress a potentially fatal blow.'--
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 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 Pain —notes toward a book never written—is his timelessly resonant response to the disease.In quick, sharp, unflinching strokes of his pen, Daudet wrote about his symptoms (“This is the one-man-band of pain”) and his treatments (“Mor-phine nights . . . thick black waves, sleepless on the surface of life, the void beneath”); about his fears and reflections (“Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit. Be my philosophy, be my science”); his impressions of the patients, himself included, and their strange life at curative baths and spas (“Russians, both men and women, go into the baths naked . . . Alarm among the Southerners”); and about the “clever way in which death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out.”Given Barnes’s crystalline translation, these notes comprise a record—at once shattering and lighthearted, haunting and beguiling—of both the banal and the transformative experience of physical suffering, and a testament to the complex resiliency of the human spirit.
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This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
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