by Robert McLiam Wilson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782267016895
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«La douleur de Manfred» is the novel by Robert McLiam Wilson, published by Christian Bourgois in paperback (276 pages, in French).
Manfred feels a pain in his lower abdomen and senses what it heralds, but decides neither to relieve it nor tell anyone, not even Emma, the wife who left him twenty years ago and with whom he still meets on a garden bench. It is an intimate portrait of a man seeking in pain a perhaps impossible redemption.
Translated into French by Brice Matthieussent, the work was originally published in English as Manfred's Pain in 1993.
For readers of literary fiction interested in Irish literature and portraits of characters at the end of life.
Robert McLiam Wilson is a Northern Irish novelist.
