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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson
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ZIN Product Number: 10404593
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 700 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322919
Release Date: Jan 2, 2002
| |  | | | From The Publisher
"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.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
The first American collection of seven interconnected novellas by the Columbian author whom Gabriel Garc'a M‡rquez called "one of the greatest contemporary writers" follows the adventures of a displaced pilgrim who, like a latter-day Don Quixote, goes in search of a world that no longer exists. "Mutis conveys a world of doubt and uncertainty, where ends are as clouded as means and where the achievement of either is almost beside the point"—James Polk, Washington Post
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Though each of these entertaining and elegant novellas can stand on its own, the cumulative effect is of an epic novel. Mutis is a writer of the first order, and he is well served by Edith Grossman's translation. I admire his work very much and can only encourage others to read him. —Oscar Hijuelos
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