num_pages: 700
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. 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
title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
titlecomplete: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
characters: Maqroll el Gaviero
genres: Spanish Literature, Short Stories, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 1340
publisher: NYRB Classics