Monsieur Pain - Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (Translation)

Category: Historical Fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Spanish Literature
Written by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (Translation)
Read by Walter Krochmal
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
‘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
Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 10-07-25
Written by Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (Translation) Read by Walter Krochmal Format: M4B Bitrate: 128 Kbps Unabridged
Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
‘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
Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins Release date: 10-07-25