Monsieur Pain

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811218894

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Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Roberto Bolano takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel. A Bolano 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. . . .

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811217149

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Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

To drag fiction toward the unknown, [Bolao] 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.--"The New York Review of Books."

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811222532

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The Unknown University by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A deluxe edition of Bolano’s complete poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without disappearing.” When asked, “What makes you believe you’re a better poet than a novelist?” Bolano replied, “The poetry makes me blush less.” The sum of his life’s work in his preferred medium, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano’s gift for freely crossing genres, with poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. “Poetry,” he believed, “is braver than anyone.”

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811223362

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A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Published in Spain just before Bolano’s death, A Little Lumpen Novelita percolates with a fierce and tender love of women “Now I am a mother and a married woman, but not long ago I led a life of crime”: so Bianca begins her tale of growing up the hard way in Rome. Orphaned overnight as a teenager—“our parents died in a car crash on their first vacation without us”—she drops out of school, gets a crappy job, and drifts into bad company. Her younger brother brings home two petty criminals who need a place to stay. As the four of them share the family apartment and plot a strange crime, Bianca learns how low she can fall. Electric, tense with foreboding, and written in jagged, propulsive chapters, A Little Lumpen Novelita delivers a surprising, fractured fable of seizing control of one’s fate.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220538

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The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat. The stories in The Insufferable Gaucho — unpredictable and daring, highly controlled yet somehow haywire — might concern a stalwart rat police detective investigating terrible rodent crimes, or an elusive plagiarist, or an elderly Argentine lawyer giving up city life for an improbable return to the familye state on the Pampas, now gone to wrack and ruin. These five astonishing stories, along with two compelling essays, show Bolano as a magician, pulling bloodthirsty rabbits out of his hat.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219914

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Antwerp (New Directions Pearls) by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

"Antwerp's" signature elements--crimes and campgrounds, drifters and poetry, sex and love, corrupt cops and misfits--mark this, his first novel, as pure Bolao. A elegantly produced, small collectible stamped cover-on-cloth edition.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220583

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The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A collection that gathers everything Bolano was working on before his untimely death. A North American journalist in Paris is woken at 4 a.m. by a mysterious caller with urgent information. For V. S. Naipaul the prevalence of sodomy in Argentina is a symptom of the nation’s political ills. Daniela de Montecristo (familiar to readers of Nazi Literature in the Americas and 2666) recounts the loss of her virginity. Arturo Belano returns to Mexico City and meets the last disciples of Ulises Lima, who play in a band called The Asshole of Morelos. Belano’s son Gerónimo disappears in Berlin during the Days of Chaos in 2005. Memories of a return to the native land. Argentine writers as gangsters. Zombie schlock as allegory... The various pieces in the posthumous Secret of Evil extend the intricate, single web that is the work of Roberto Bolano.

Author : Marguerite Duras
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : UCSC:32106008321942

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La Douleur by Marguerite Duras Pdf

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220484

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Amulet by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

A tour de force, Amulet is a highly charged first-person, semi-hallucinatory novel that embodies in one woman's voice the melancholy and violent recent history of Latin America. Amulet is a monologue, like Bolano's acclaimed debut in English, By Night in Chile. The speaker is Auxilio Lacouture, a Uruguayan woman who moved to Mexico in the 1960s, becoming the "Mother of Mexican Poetry," hanging out with the young poets in the cafés and bars of the University. She's tall, thin, and blonde, and her favorite young poet in the 1970s is none other than Arturo Belano (Bolano's fictional stand-in throughout his books). As well as her young poets, Auxilio recalls three remarkable women: the melancholic young philosopher Elena, the exiled Catalan painter Remedios Varo, and Lilian Serpas, a poet who once slept with Che Guevara. And in the course of her imaginary visit to the house of Remedios Varo, Auxilio sees an uncanny landscape, a kind of chasm. This chasm reappears in a vision at the end of the book: an army of children is marching toward it, singing as they go. The children are the idealistic young Latin Americans who came to maturity in the '70s, and the last words of the novel are: "And that song is our amulet."

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811218146

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Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003 by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Collection of most of Bolaño's newspaper columns, articles (many about other literary authors), prefaces, and texts of talks or speeches given by Bolaño during the last five years of his life. "Taken together, they make a surprisingly rounded whole . . . a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"--Introduction, p.1.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220552

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Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Roberto Bolano takes us into an odd, dark, but comic underworld in this strangely tender noir novel. A Bolano 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. . . .

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : Random House
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446442333

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By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his one-time student, General Pinochet, to nightmarish flashes of falcons and falconers, the Chilean landscape and faces of those now dead, reality and imagination crowd and clamber in pursuit of the ‘wizened youth’ who still haunts Father Lacroix all these years later. Translated by Chris Andrews Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

Author : Philippe Claudel
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623655228

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Monsieur Linh and His Child by Philippe Claudel Pdf

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety. The other refugees in the detention center are unsure how to help the old man; his caseworkers are compassionate, but overworked. Monsieur Linh struggles beneath the weight of his sorrow, and becomes increasingly bewildered and isolated in this unfamiliar, fast-moving town. And then he encounters Monsieur Bark. They do not speak each other's language, but Monsieur Bark is sympathetic to the foreigner's need to care for the child. Recently widowed and equally alone, he is eager to talk, and Monsieur Linh knows how to listen. The two men share their solitude, and find friendship in an unlikely dialogue between two very different cultures. Monsieur Linh and His Child is a remarkable novel with an extraordinary twist, a subtle portrait of friendship and a dialogue between two cultures.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811216888

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Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.

Author : Roberto Bolaño
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780811223997

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The Romantic Dogs: Poems by Roberto Bolaño Pdf

Listed as a "2009 Indie Next List Poetry Top Ten" book by the American Booksellers Association: Roberto Bolano as he saw himself, in his own first calling as a poet. Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit. Bolano's poetic voice is like no other's: "At that time, I'd reached the age of twenty/and I was crazy. /I'd lost a country/but won a dream./Long as I had that dream/nothing else mattered...."