The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll
Mutis, Alvaro (, 1923-2013)
The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll / Alvaro Mutis ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Francisco Goldman - New York : New York Review of Books , 2002. - xvi, 700 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
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. Álvaro 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.
9780940322912
2001006229
Mutis, Alvaro (, 1923-2013)
Maqroll, el Gaviero (Fictitious character)----Fiction
PQ8180.23.U8 / E6613 2002
LAS FIC MUT
The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll / Alvaro Mutis ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Francisco Goldman - New York : New York Review of Books , 2002. - xvi, 700 p. ; 21 cm. - New York Review Books classics .
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. Álvaro 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.
9780940322912
2001006229
Mutis, Alvaro (, 1923-2013)
Maqroll, el Gaviero (Fictitious character)----Fiction
PQ8180.23.U8 / E6613 2002
LAS FIC MUT
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