The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll

Alvaro Mutis Francisco Goldman First published 2002

About this book

"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.".

"Alvaro Mutis's seven 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 stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

el gaviero maqroll (fictitious character)
european - spanish & portuguese
fiction
fiction - general
fiction / general
fiction, general
fiction / literary
fiction/literature
literary
literary criticism
mutis, alvaro
spanish novel and short story
translations into english