Álvaro Mutis Book order

The narrative cycle features Maqroll el Gaviero, a character developed by Álvaro Mutis in seven interconnected novels written between 1986 and 1993. This collection presents the complete series, showcasing Maqroll's adventures and existential reflections. Celebrated as a monumental figure in contemporary Latin American literature, Maqroll embodies themes of exploration and introspection. The novels, rich in poetic language and vivid imagery, have solidified his status as a legendary character in world literature.

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.