La Doulou
novel by Daudet
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La Doulou is a posthumously published work by French novelist Alphonse Daudet, written in his final years. The novel is not a fictional narrative in the traditional sense but rather an exploration of Daudet's own physical suffering from a spinal cord ailment caused by venereal disease. He attempted to alleviate his pain by investigating it through his writing. The work offers a raw and introspective look at chronic illness and the human experience of pain. It was not published until 1931, long after Daudet's death in 1897.1
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