9780811217149 - Monsieur Pain de Bolaño, Roberto (21 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. AS NEW. Translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. Author of 2666.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. First printing. Fine, As New condition, crisp and clean and unread. Dust jacket is unclipped. Translated by Chris Andrews. 134 pp. In protective Mylar.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. Full number line. ; 8.10 X 5.60 X 0.80 inches; 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First US Edition; First Printing. Full number line. ; 144 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of First edition. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean with tight binding and sharp corners. Unclipped dust jacket is fresh and bright. 8vo. 144pp. In protective mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

First Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First New Directions edition. Full number line. Solid near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing)l.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition. New York: New Directions, 2010. First edition. 8vo. Hard cover binding, 131 pp. New in new dust jacket, protected with an archival-quality mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; 134 pages. Book.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. Minor shelf wear to wraps. Light wear and soiling to edges of text block. Text is unmarked.

1st Printing. 134 pages. Published in 2010. The author's historico-literary novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Roberto Bolano's "Monsieur Pain" in a felicitous English translation. Based on real-life figures and events, including the enigmatic eponymous character, who is thought to be Cesar Vallejo, regarded as the greatest Spanish poet of the 20th century by many critics and readers (that is, greater than the usual suspects: Lorca, Borges, Neruda, or Octavio Paz). Bolano wrote and published the novel when he was in his late 20's and during his long obscurity (in 1981 or 1982) as "The Elephant Path". As such, he mirrors his own desperate life through Vallejo's even more desperate one. He reissued it in 1999 as "Monsieur Pain", and discreetly alludes to its connection with a later work, "Last Evenings On Earth". Its very belated appearance in English is part of an ongoing project to translate and publish Bolano's complete oeuvre, and as such, is not only laudable but noble and necessary. "A hallucinatory masterwork. One of Robert Bolano's most tender and moving novels" (Publisher's blurb). What exactly is Roberto Bolano's achievement? "He emerged as a writer at a time when Latin America no longer believed in utopias, when paradise had become hell, and that sense of monstrousness and waking nightmares and constant flight from something horrid permeates '2666' and all his work. A writer who worked without a net, who went all out, with no brakes, and in doing so, created a new way to be a great Latin American writer" (Rodrigo Fresan). The consistently high level of Bolano's virtuosity is almost miraculous when one sees it as having been achieved during a brief and miserable personal life. It was as though he turned to literature not just to complement or complete but to change his life altogether. By the time of his untimely death in 2003 at the age of 50, Bolano was universally regarded as the greatest Spanish-language novelist of our time. "The real thing and the rarest" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Roberto Bolano collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERTO BOLANO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0811217140.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards. 134 pages. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. As New/As New first edition with the full number line down to "1" on the copyright page. Unread with no flaws whatsoever. Protected in a mylar dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 1st edition. 134 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. First published as a New Directions Book in 2010, 1st printing. Translated by Chris Andrews. 134pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in NEW condition. "Paris, 1938. The Peruvian poet César Vallejo is in the hospital, unable to stop hiccuping. His wife calls on an acquaintance of her friend Madame Reynaud: the mesmerist Pierre Pain. A timid bachelor, Pain is in love with the widow Reynaud and agrees to try to use his powers to help save the poet's life. But then two mysterious Spanish men intervene, determined to keep him from treating the patient. Terrible anxiety enters the story--along with another practitioner of the occult sciences, tarot cards, nightmares, Mme Curie, WWII, hopeless love, and an assassination. Poor Monsieur Pain, haunted and guilty, wanders the crepuscular, rainy streets of Paris. One of Roberto Bolano's most moving and tender novels, MONSIEUR PAIN creates a galaxy of historical figures (Cesar Vallejo and his wife Georgette, the mesmerist Pierre Pain, and Mme Curie and her daughter Irene all actually existed) only to explode it gleefully in a final 'Epilogue for Voices,' scattering the docudrama and opening the book onto vast, untold hinterlands." [jacket copy] "MONSIEUR PAIN, an early novella, beautifully translated by Chris Andrews, joins his other works in all their aching splendour."--Carolina de Robertis, National Post. "It is more accessible than anything else of his I've read. We're sailing smoothly on Bolano's flowing prose."--Trevor Berrett. "Roberto Bolano 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. "The great subject of his oeuvre is the relationship between art and infamy, craft and crime, the writer and the totalitarian state. All of his heroes are loners who devote themselves to reading and swimming in the abyss. Being a writer in this world is as dangerous as being a detective, walking through a graveyard, looking at ghosts."--Marcela Valdes, The Nation. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in an intact, spotless jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING complete number line to 1) New Directions Books, 2010. Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears, not price clipped ($22.95). Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Not book club. Fast shipping from Dry, Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number. International ships Global Priority (Air).

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. New York: New Directions [2010]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New in dust jacket, very fine/very fine in all respects, a pristine unread copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Chris Andrews, translator. 0.0.