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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

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Maqroll the Gaviero 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.

Language: English

Pages: 700

Format: Paperback

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Release: February 01, 2002

ISBN: 0940322919

ISBN 13: 9780940322912

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Maqroll the Gaviero 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.

Language: English

Pages: 700

Format: Paperback

Publisher: NYRB Classics

Release: February 01, 2002

ISBN: 0940322919

ISBN 13: 9780940322912

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