The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
Author | : Alvaro Mutis |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 2002-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0940322919 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780940322912 |
Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.