Abstrakt
The paper deals with the narrative strategy using the principle of the confusion within the field of fiction and reality in Bolaño's second novel Monsieur Pain. The novel Monsieur Pain seems to be a kind of biography or even autobiography; however, Bolaño here presents just a well narrated fiction; i. e. he uses the narrative methods of simulation.
Using the possibilities of comparative literature the text demonstrates that Bolaño's fiction proceeds from other texts, especially biographical ones, or well-known experiences of real people. The article also refers to the literary tradition which confuses the fiction with texts that seem to be a sort of scientific studies.
This game of confusion is present in the Poe's, Borge's or García Márquez's work. Bolaño's games within reality and fiction and his avocation in veiling him in different alter egos or fictive characters starts in this novel; it is developed by Bolaño in his other novels, for example, Detectives salvajes or La literatura nazi en América.