The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll

By Francisco Goldman, Alvaro Mutis

Subjects: el Gaviero Maqroll (Fictitious character), Translations into English, Fiction / Literary, Mutis, Alvaro, European - Spanish & Portuguese, Fiction, general, Literary, Literary Criticism, Fiction/Literature, Spanish Novel And Short Story, Fiction - General, Fiction, Fiction / General

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.". "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.