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Title: The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) by Alvaro Mutis, Edith Grossman, Francisco Goldman ISBN: 0-940322-91-9 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 17 January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: the greatest Latin novelist of our time
Comment: Friends of mine in Mexico City who know Marquez say that Marques worships Mutis. They're both Colombians living in Mexico City, but they're the comparison ends. Mutis to me is Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene and Jean-Louis Ferdinand Celine rolled into one. With a little Sartre for seasoning.
I really wish more of his work would be translated, but I enjoy Mutis so much I'm tempted to just bite the bullet and read his work in Spanish even though it would take me 20 times as long.
Maqroll and Bashur are two of the greatest literary characters to come by in a very long time.
Viva el Gaviero!!
Rating: 5
Summary: masterful stories
Comment: It's very hard to put this book down. Mutis resembles no one writing today, his prose is immaculate and his stories indescribable. He is one of a kind. This is a treasure; one only wishes there were more.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Adventure With the Lookout
Comment: This may be the most beautifully written, wise, and fun book I have ever read. Maqroll is the perfect companion: he goes everywhere, knows many remarkable and delightful people in every spot, and speaks with wisdom, joy, and sadness all at once.
Each sentence is a gem: taken together, they create a world that transports the reader into a world of adventure, danger, love, friendship, and insight.
Imagine Cervantes mixed with Pynchon, with a little Groucho Marx thrown in: this is a work to savor and Maqroll is a wise and loving guide to a world of breath-taking beauty, where each day holds new treasures.
This is the closest thing to a perfect book I have come across. It is a true classic, as readers of Spanish literature have known for some years.
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Title: Zeno's Conscience : A Novel by William Weaver, Italo Svevo ISBN: 0375727760 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman, Harold Bloom ISBN: 0060188707 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: As a Man Grows Older (New York Review Books Classics) by Italo Svevo, Beryl De Zoete, James Lasdun ISBN: 0940322846 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Moon and the Bonfires (New York Review Books Classics) by Cesare Pavese, R. W. Flint, Mark Rudman ISBN: 1590170210 Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Way of Life, Like Any Other (New York Review Books Classics) by Darcy O'Brien, Seamus Heaney ISBN: 094032279X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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