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Maqroll: Three Novellas : The Snow of the Admiral/Ilona Comes With the Rain/UN Bel Morir

Literature & Fiction

Mutis, Álvaro

Contemporary

Harpercollins

Four novellas about the charismatic Maqroll follow him all over the world, finding gold in a South American mine, on a ship transporting Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, and back home caring for the son of a friend who died tragically.

The Adventures of Maqroll: Four Novellas : Amirbar/the Tramp Steamer's Last Port of Call/Abdul Bashur, Dreamer of Ships/Triptych on Sea and Land

Maqroll: Three Novellas

Perennial

Contains three novellas featuring Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) - adventurer, sailor, lover and student of Saint Francis. His episodic life sees him wandering throughout the world, from smuggling rings in Alicante to unwitting involvement with guerillas in South America.

Maqroll Three Novellas

Pan Books, Ltd.

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.

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics)

Grossman, Edith

Goldman, Francisco

Dramas & Plays

NYRB Classics

Herve Di Rosa: Mexico

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Gingko Pr Inc

Peer to Gabriel García Marquez and Octavio Paz, Álvaro Mutis is indisputably one of the greatest Latin American authors of the twentieth century, and this collection brings together the best of Mutis's largely unknown body of poetry. Álvaro Mutis is celebrated internationally as the author of the seven novellas, written between 1986 and 1993, that constitute the legendary and widely loved Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll. Maqroll, the Gaviero, or watchman, is a wanderer, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as he knows that neither can or will last. Few know, however, that Maqroll made his first appearance, and established his myth, not in prose but in poetry. Starting 1948, Mutis published several volumes of poetry influenced by surrealists like Robert Desnos and Pablo Neruda, but with an unmistakable voice of his own, gaining the admiration of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, who called him "one of the greatest writers of our time." This selection of Mutis's haunting poems has been rendered into English by three of the finest translators of the Spanish language and is published in a bilingual edition.

Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems (NYRB Poets)

NYRB Poets

The poetic early Latin American fiction of Alvaro Mutis, winner of the Cervantes Prize for Spanish literature.poetic, has now been translated into English for the first time by Canada’s Beatriz Hausner. These fabulist tales invoke a vivid and surreal environment in which the drama of human life takes many shapes.

The Mansion

Hausner, Beatriz

Ekstasis Editions

At the age of sixty-three, Álvaro Mutis took up the character that had appeared sporadically in his poetry and turned him into the central figure of a narrative cycle consisting of seven novels, written between 1986 and 1993, to which the author himself gave the general title of Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero. This edition gathers the complete fictional cycle of Maqroll el Gaviero, the main character in all seven novels: La nieve del Almirante, Ilona llega con la lluvia, Un bel morir, La última escala del Tramp Steamer, Amirbar, Abdul Bashur, soñador de navíos, and Tríptico de mar y tierra. Maqroll el Gaviero has earned a place as one of the legendary characters of world literature. In the words of Javier Reverte, he constitutes "a veritable monument in contemporary Latin American literature."\nA los sesenta y tres años, Álvaro Mutis retomó el personaje que había aparecido esporádicamente en su poesía y lo convirtió en la figura central de un ciclo narrativo compuesto por siete novelas, escritas entre 1986 y 1993, a las que el propio autor dio la título general de Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero. Esta edición recoge el ciclo ficcional completo de Maqroll el Gaviero, protagonista de siete novelas: La nieve del Almirante, Ilona llega con la lluvia, Un bel morir, La última escala del Tramp Steamer, Amirbar, Abdul Bashur, soñador de navíos , y Tríptico de mar y tierra. Maqroll el Gaviero se ha ganado un lugar como uno de los personajes míticos de la literatura universal. En palabras de Javier Reverte, constituye "un verdadero monumento de la literatura latinoamericana contemporánea."

Empresas y Tribulaciones de Maqroll El Gaviero: Enterprises and Tribulations of Maqroll El Gaviero, Spanish Edition

United States

La nieve del almirante (Alianza tres) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Alianza

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