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Pain as a pencil sharpener.(In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet)(Book Review)
In the Land of Pain, by Alphonse Daudet, translated and edited by Julian Barnes; Cape, 2002, $32.95.
ALPHONSE DAUDET (1840-97) is a neglected writer these days, even in France where, in his heyday, he was as well known as Maupassant, Flaubert and the Goncourts. Poet, journalist, dramatist and novelist, he was acclaimed for his brilliantly sunny Provencal and Algerian divertissements collected in Tartarin de Tarascon and Lettres de mon Moulin. After all, it is usually only the most distinctive writers who impress their vision on the language: French boasts the word tartarinade, which itself describes a kind of boasting. At the height of his fame Henry James called ...
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- Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies White, Nicholas September 22, 2001 700+ words
...we might be surprised to learn that this is how one of the most successful French novelists of the early Third Republic, Alphonse Daudet (1840-97), begins this short novel which focuses on the fictitious playwright Regis de Fagan's relationship with...
- Alphonse Daudet.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Big important book of the month.(Books)(The Lemon Table by Julian Barnes)(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Esquire Miller, Adrienne July 1, 2004 700+ words
...into the multivalent mind of Julian Barnes. In 14 books of stunning range...19th-century French novelist Alphonse Daudet, which Daudet wrote as he was...correspondence with a novelist named Julian Barnes. And then this from an elderly...
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- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 10, 2003 700+ words
...In the Land of Pain By Alphonse Daudet Edited and translated by Julian Barnes Knopf. 87 pp. $18 On...English-speaking world, Alphonse Daudet is now known mostly to...In the Land of Pain _ Julian Barnes' title for the first...
- Julian Barnes Big Questions; The British Novelist, Tackling the Unknown
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Elizabeth Kastor May 18, 1987 700+ words
Julian Barnes sits down behind the borrowed desk in the borrowed office of a flack...private life on display as a way of getting people to buy the book. Julian Barnes was born in 1946 in Leicester, England, attended Oxford University...
- Julian Barnes's story on the art of making money
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David Lister Art News Editor November 16, 1996 700+ words
The text is by Julian Barnes. The pictures are by the celebrated British colourist Howard...lavish guide to Aston Martins (pounds 750). Mr Draper had known Julian Barnes through a shared enthusiasm for wine. They met at a tasting...
- Julian Barnes takes to the skies
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Lloyd Sachs April 19, 1987 700+ words
Staring at the SunBy Julian Barnes. Knopf. $15.95. Julian Barnes, the restless literary inquisitor of Flaubert's Parrot, has returned in no less searching a state with another unusual, philosophic novel. Among its many virtues, Staring...
- Julian Barnes
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Marie Arana-Ward May 19, 1996 700+ words
CLEVER MAN, Julian Barnes -- a writer who can focus on the small even as he makes you think...Putting the Boot In (1985), and Going To the Dogs (1988). As Julian Barnes, he went on to write Before She Met Me (1982), the much-celebrated...