Description
Occult sciences, César Vallejo, WWII, hopeless love, and a final “Epilogue for Voices”: Monsieur Pain is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolano.
Reviews
"A very good read and essential for Bolaño completists." — Craig Morgan Teicher, The Plain Dealer
"John Coltrane jamming with the Sex Pistols." — John M. Richardson, Esquire
"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, The New York Review of Books
"Bolaño wrote with the high-voltage first-person braininess of a Saul Bellow and an extreme subversive vision of his own." — Francisco Goldman, The New York Times Magazine
"Delightfully noirish." — Brad Hooper, Booklist
"Monsieur Pain, an early novella, beautifully translated by Chris Andrews, joins his other works in all their aching splendour." — Carolina de Robertis, National Post
"A heightened sense of analogy aligns careless deserters, serious moviegoers and sold-out psychics to a world of labyrinthine visions…." — Roberto Ontiveros, The Dallas Morning News
"A real discovery and a substantial addition to the growing Bolaño library in English." — Stephen Henighan, The Quarterly Conversation
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Paperback, 2012
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E Book, 2022
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Paperback, 2021
With a preface by the irrepressible Patti Smith, The Divorce is a delightful book of several short amazing stories of chance meetings, bizarre circumstances, and even stranger visions of alternate...
