Research Catalog

Title

The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll / Alvaro Mutis ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Francisco Goldman.

Author

Mutis, Álvaro

Publication

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

Grossman, Edith, 1936-2023

Description

xvi, 700 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero. English

Alternative Title

Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero.

Subject

Mutis, Álvaro > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Translations
• Adventure fiction
• Picaresque literature
• Nouvelles.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The snow of the admiral -- Ilona comes with the rain -- Un bel morir -- The tramp steamer's last port of call -- Amirbar -- Abdul Bashur, dreamer of ships -- Triptych on sea and land.

ISBN

0940322919 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001006229

OCLC

• 48397912
• SCSB-10728667

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library