A review by takecoverbooks
Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Monsieur Pain is Roberto Bolaño's first published novel, and it contains the seeds that would blossom in his subsequent work: the immortality of fascism; the absurdity of applying reason to reasonless world; history as contingent on the historian.