Book description
A āstartling [and] splendidā book (The New York Times Book Review) from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century on his years of enduring severe illnessāa classic in the literary annals of human suffering. ā¢ Edited and translated by the bestselling, Booker Prize winning author of The Senseā¦
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Alphonse Daudetās notebooks on pain are among the most explicit, honest, and consoling treatments of chronic illness ever written. Daudet was a contemporary of Flaubert, admired as a novelist of provincial France by such luminaries as Charles Dickens and Henry James. Like Flaubert, Daudet suffered from syphilis and he planned to write a book about his experience. He died before he could do that, but his notebooks survive. As someone who lives with chronic pain, I cherish Daudetās frank but never saccharine advice and his commitment to compassion for others in the teeth of his own suffering.
From Kieran's list on finding solidarity in suffering.
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