Monsieur Pain / Monsieur Pain
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Monsieur Pain / Monsieur Pain

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Monsieur Pain / Monsieur Pain"El mayor regalo de Bolao es hacernos sentir la magnitud de la oscuridad sin que consigamos ver exactamente qu esconde". Will Blythe, The New York Times Book Review En la primavera de 1938, monsieur Pierre Pain, acupuntor y seguidor convencido de las teoras mesmricas, recibe el cometido de tratar el hipo de un sudamericano abandonado a su poca suerte y escasos medios en un hospital de Pars. Lo que a priori pareca un extrao caso de fi ebre alta, no

"El mayor regalo de Bolaño es hacernos sentir la magnitud de la oscuridad sin que consigamos ver exactamente qué esconde". --Will Blythe, The New York Times Book Review

En la primavera de 1938, monsieur Pierre Pain, acupuntor y seguidor convencido de las teorías mesméricas, recibe el cometido de tratar el hipo de un sudamericano abandonado a su poca suerte y escasos medios en un hospital de París. Lo que a priori parecía un extraño caso de fi ebre alta, no obstante, se presenta ante sus ojos como un entramado de proporciones inimaginables y abre la puerta a preguntas cuyas respuestas Pain tendrá que desvelar. ¿Qué identidad se oculta tras ese rostro pobre y agonizante? ¿Quién, quiénes o qué podrían desear su muerte? ¿Y qué provecho sacarían de ella? Enfrentado a una red compleja y oscura, el mesmerista habrá de lidiar con sus pasiones más íntimas y el implacable fantasma de la soledad, con el ínfimo atisbo que a la humanidad le resta de dignidad y con la tristeza que, ola tras ola, trago tras trago, todo lo anega

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Occult sciences, César Vallejo, WWII, hopeless love, and a final "Epilogue for Voices" Monsieur Pain is a hallucinatory masterwork by the great Roberto Bolaño. In this work, Bolaño takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel.

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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