Альваро Мутис

Book DescriptionThe 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

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 absol...

Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero reune en un volumen siete novelas sobre ese personaje errante que es el Gaviero - el hombre de la gavia, el que tenia la posibilidad de ver mas lejos en el horizonte-, y cuyo vagabundeo por puertos y mares y reconditos lugares es una de las mas apasionantes trayectorias literarias.

Inicia la saga de Maqroll el Gaviero, viejo marinero errante que recorre los puertos y mares mas reconditos, alter ego del autor que expresa sus sentimientos mas profundos y oscuros, los estados de animo de todo su ser. En esta ocasion, Maqroll se adentra en un rio imaginario, el Xurando, y atraviesa la selva acompanado del imborrable recuerdo de Flor Estevez y de un libro que narra la muerte del ...

These novellas feature an original and charismatic hero called Maqroll, the lookout. Adventurer, sailor, intense and devoted but temporary lover, loyal friend, student of Saint Francis, entrepreneur of dubious schemes - Maqroll's wanderings take him throughout the world.