The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll

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

People: Alvaro Mutis