The adventures and misadventures of Maqroll
By: Alvaro Mutis ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman ; introduction by Francisco Goldman.
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
Subjects: Mutis, Alvaro -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English.
Work titles: Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero.
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.