Overview
A major, retrospective launch of Roberto Bolano's work - now published as a Vintage Classics author for the first time. Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo lies in hospital, hiccupping himself to death. When the doctors struggle to offer a diagnosis, his wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud, the mesmerist and reclusive bachelor Pierre Pain. Pain, in love and eager to impress, agrees to help. But on a night that 'smells of something strange', things soon go awry... A wonderfully oneiric novella that blends the finest of Edgar Allan Poe with Jorge Luis Borges and Bolano's truly astonishing alchemical gifts, Monsieur Pain is a gripping noir conspiracy as rich as it is strange. TRANSLATED BY CHRIS ANDREWS 'A surrealist nightmare, with overtones of Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler' The Times This marvellous little yarn is dark, mysterious and rich in surprises... If you have yet to enter the daringly kaleidoscopic labyrinth that is Roberto Bolano's imagination, this is a lively place to begin what will be quite an experience' Irish Times
Full Product Details
Author: Roberto Bolaño ,
Chris Andrews
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.120kg
ISBN: 9781784879464
ISBN 10: 1784879460
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 03 October 2024
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This marvellous little yarn is dark, mysterious and rich in surprises . . . If you have yet to enter the daringly kaleidoscopic labyrinth that is Roberto Bolano's imagination, this is a lively place to begin what will be quite an experience. * Irish Times * [Monsieur Pain is] a taste of what made him such a formidable talent. * Metro * Monsieur Pain is a mystery in which the mystery remains unsolved. The novel strikes a compelling balance of lucidity and strangeness. * Times Literary Supplement * Bolaño creates the atmosphere of a surrealist nightmare, with overtones of Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler. * The Times * Whodunnit with no who or it and precious little dunn, but plenty to offer the lover of literary intrigue. * Word *
Author Information
Roberto Bolano was born in Santiago, Chile in 1953 and died in Catalonia in 2003. He was widely regarded as the essential Latin American writer of our age. He was best known for his novels (including The Savage Detectives, which won a number of prestigious literary awards, Nocturno de Chile, translated as By Night in Chile, and 2666, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award) and his short stories, first published in English in Last Evenings on Earth.
