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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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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, Álvaro Mutis
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Álvaro Mutis
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 768
- ISBN10
- 0940322919
- ISBN13
- 9780940322912
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Travel, Love, Short Stories, Friendship, Death, Spanish Literature, Journey, Diaries, Survival, Loneliness, Suicide, Latin American Literature, Reading, Seafaring, Gold, Smuggling
- Original title
- Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- 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.