The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll

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. lvaro 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 02/01/2002
ISBN: 9780940322912
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.50d

Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 01/13/2003 pg. 81