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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811218899
ISBN-139780811218894
eBay Product ID (ePID)109125988
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Book TitleMonsieur Pain
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2012
GenreFiction
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
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ReviewsA surrealistic attic of unlikely juxtapositions. . . . The novel melds existential anxiety to political terror in a measure peculiar to Bolaño. Imagine the protagonist of Poe's 'Tell-Tale Heart' if he were being interrogated by the secret police on suspicion of having hidden subversives behind his wall., Employing a reserved and stately voice reminiscent of pre-Modernist fiction, Pain's tale is itself mesmerizing, debonair and entertaining., Bolaño's gleeful but deadpan bouillabaisse of French surrealism, expressionism, and Kafkaesque unease., It is more accessible than anything else of his I've read. We're sailing smoothly on Bolaño's flowing prose., Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own., A surrealistic attic of unlikely juxtapositions. . . . The novel melds existential anxiety to political terror in a measure peculiar to Bolao. Imagine the protagonist of Poe's 'Tell-Tale Heart' if he were being interrogated by the secret police on suspicion of having hidden subversives behind his wall., Bolao's gleeful but deadpan bouillabaisse of French surrealism, expressionism, and Kafkaesque unease., Roberto Bolao was an examplary literary rebel. To drag fiction towardthe unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method withwhich to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the resultsare multi-dimensional., Roberto Bolaño was an examplary literary rebel. To drag fiction towardthe unknown, he had to go there himself, and there invent a method withwhich to represent it. Since the unknown place was reality, the resultsare multi-dimensional., It is more accessible than anything else of his I've read. We're sailing smoothly on Bolao's flowing prose., In Monsieur Pain, a heightened sense of analogy aligns careless deserters, serious moviegoers, and sold-out psychics to a world of labyrinthine visions and designer fish tanks., This beautifully translated early novella, set in Paris... joins the late author's other works in all its aching splendor., Bolao wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own., In Monsieur Pain, a heightened sense of analogy aligns careless deserters, serious moviegoers, and sold-out psychics to a world of labyrinthine visions and designer fish tanks., Monsieur Pain, an early novella, beautifully translated by Chris Andrews, joins his other works in all their aching splendour.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal863/.64
SynopsisA Bolaño classic. 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 him and bribe him not to treat Vallejo. Ravaged by guilt and anxiety, Pain does not intend to abandon his new patient, but his access to the hospital is barred and Madame Reynaud mysteriously leaves Paris. Another practitioner of the occult sciences enters the story (working for Generalissimo Franco, using his mesmeric expertise to interrogate prisoners) -- as do Mme. Curie, tarot cards, an assassination, and nightmares. Meanwhile, a haunted Monsieur Pain wanders the crepuscular, rainy streets of Paris. . . ., A Bola o classic. The Peruvian poet C sar 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 him and bribe him not to treat Vallejo. Ravaged by guilt and anxiety, Pain does not intend to abandon his new patient, but his access to the hospital is barred and Madame Reynaud mysteriously leaves Paris. Another practitioner of the occult sciences enters the story (working for Generalissimo Franco, using his mesmeric expertise to interrogate prisoners) -- as do Mme. Curie, tarot cards, an assassination, and nightmares. Meanwhile, a haunted Monsieur Pain wanders the crepuscular, rainy streets of Paris. . . ., Roberto Bolaño takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel.
LC Classification NumberPQ8098.12.O38
