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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics)
by Alvaro Mutis

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Alvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.

Review:

"In this collection of three novellas concerning the exploits and musings of Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout), Mutis again distinguishes himself as one of the most intriguing modern Latin American writers of fiction. Maqroll is a marvellous creation, at once a bleak amoralist and a pious student of St. Francis, an adventurer, lover, and skeptical philosopher. The stories of his dark and often surreal experiences as a sailor, tapster, and gunrunner contain much that is amusing and a great deal of pathos, and the tale of his final confrontation with mortality—his crossing of the river Styx, so to speak—is almost hypnotically luminous." Reviewed by Andrew Witmer, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)

Synopsis:

These seven novellas follow Maqroll's adventures and love affairs from Amazon jungles to Andean peaks. In a world threatened by violence and given over to dirty deals, Maqroll strives at all costs to preserve his honor and maintain his independence.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780940322912
Translator:
Grossman, Edith
Introduction:
Goldman, Francisco
Translator:
Grossman, Edith
Author:
Mutis, Alvaro
Author:
Goldman, Francisco
Publisher:
New York Review of Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Translations into english
Subject:
Mutis, Alvaro
Series:
New York Review Books Classics
Series Volume:
D36
Publication Date:
February 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
700
Dimensions:
8.04x5.02x1.25 in. 1.36 lbs.
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