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The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll / Alvaro Mutis ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Francisco Goldman

By:

Mutis, Alvaro, (, 1923-2013)

Contributor(s):

Grossman, Edith, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New York Review Books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review of Books , 2002.Description: xvi, 700 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780940322912

Uniform titles:

Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC MUT

LOC classification:

PQ8180.23.U8 E6613 2002

Summary: 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.

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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.

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