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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll | Edith Grossman, Alvaro Mutis
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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 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."
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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll | Edith Grossman, Alvaro Mutis
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Liz_M
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll | Edith Grossman, Alvaro Mutis
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Each story begins with how “Mutis” came across the following story about the never-do-well sailor Maqroll – whether through documents found or a story told by a friend or Maqroll himself. This device binds together the stories into a whole. As character that falls into unsuccessful get-rich-quick schemes, I expected more of a realistic, earthy narrative instead of these lyrical and melancholy interior studies of Maqroll and his closest friends.

Catsandbooks Great review and beautiful view! 2y
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bernadette
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll | Edith Grossman, Alvaro Mutis

just started the first story. Enjoying the writing but uncomfortable with the depiction of the natives Maqroll encounters during his trip down a river in the jungle. They‘re described as beautiful, naked, and sexual. The story has moved on but it was an odd and disturbing interlude.