Monsieur Pain is a novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. Written in 1981-1982, it was originally published in 1984 under the title La senda de los elefantes (lit. "The Elephant Walk") by the City Council of Toledo, Spain, as the winning story of its "Félix Urabayen Prize". The book was reprinted in 1999 under its final Spanish title, Monsieur Pain. A translation from the Spanish by Chris Andrews was published by New Directions in January 2010.
This book was the second novel Bolaño wrote (after Antwerp, written 1980, published 2002) but the first one he got published (before Consejos de un discípulo de Morrison a un fanático de Joyce, written with A. G. Porta, published 1984).
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