The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics)
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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 tidy paperback volume, exactly seven hundred pages of smallish Trump Mediaeval, with a warm and informative introduction by Francisco Goldman, has the supple heft of a newborn classic, a latter-day "Don Quixote" whose central persona, both amusingly shadowy and adamantly consistent, moves around the globe somewhat as the Knight of the Mournful Countenance traversed the plains of Spain." --John Updike, THE NEW YORKER, January 13, 2003
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics)
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics),Alvaro Mutis,Edith Grossman,Francisco Goldman,New York Review Books Classics,0940322919,European - Spanish & Portuguese,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Mutis, Alvaro,Spanish Novel And Short Story,Translations into English,Fiction / General,Fiction / Literary,Fiction/Literature
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