Alvaro Mutis

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Maqroll's Prayer and Other PoemsPaperback, 14 November 2023

Maqroll's Prayer and Other Poems
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Part of Series
Nyrb Poets
Print Length
128 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Date Published
14 Nov 2023
ISBN-10
1590178742
ISBN-13
9781590178744

Description

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." Here a bilingual selection of Mutis's haunting poems--invocations to a hidden god, private talismans of an outcast spirit--has been rendered into English by Chris Andrews, Kristin Dykstra, Edith Grossman, and Alastair Reid.

Product Details

Author:
Alvaro Mutis
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
14 November 2023
ISBN-10:
1590178742
ISBN-13:
9781590178744
Language:
English
Pages:
128
Series:
Weight:
367.41 gm

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