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Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, afflicted with an undiagnosed illness, and unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the Mesmerist Pierre Pain. Pain, a timid bachelor, is in love with the widow Reynaud, and agrees to help. But two mysterious Spanish men follow Pain and bribe him not to treat Vallejo, and Pain takes the money. Ravaged by guilt and anxiety, however, he does not intend to abandon his new patient, but then Pain's access to the hospital is barred and Madame Reynaud leaves Paris.... Another practioner of the occult sciences enters the story (working for Franco, using his Mesmeric expertise to interrogate prisoners)--as do Mme. Curie, tarot cards, an assassination, and nightmares. Meanwhile, Monsieur Pain, haunted and guilty, wanders the crepuscular, rainy streets of Paris...
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John Coltrane jamming with the Sex Pistols.--John M. Richardson
Delightfully noirish.--Brad Hooper
A heightened sense of analogy aligns careless deserters, serious moviegoers and sold-out psychics to a world of labyrinthine visions....--Roberto Ontiveros
A very good read and essential for Bolaño completists.--Craig Morgan Teicher
Roberto Bolaño was an examplary literary rebel. To drag fiction toward the unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method with which to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the results are multi-dimensional.--Sarah Kerr
Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own.--Francisco Goldman
A real discovery and a substantial addition to the growing Bolaño library in English.--Stephen Henighan
Monsieur Pain, an early novella, beautifully translated by Chris Andrews, joins his other works in all their aching splendour.--Carolina de Robertis
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A story of hopeless love, desperate grief and the power of guilt: Monsieur Pain is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolaño.
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- PublisherNew Directions
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0811217140
- ISBN 13 9780811217149
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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