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Monsieur Pain
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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 TimesThis 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
Additional information
| Weight | 0.12 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.1 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 160 |
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| Year Published | 2024-10-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784879460 |
| About The Author | Roberto Bolaño 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. |
| Review Quote | 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. |
| Other text | [Monsieur Pain is] a taste of what made him such a formidable talent. |
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