Alvaro Mutis

Seven entertaining 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 and Misadventures of Maqroll

Elena Poniatowska

En este libro epistolar emerge el lado noble y emotivo del hombre por encima del escritor. La generosidad inteligente de Elena Poniatowska da a la luz pública las cartas que Álvaro Mutis le escribiera desde Lecumberri, epístolas colmadas de esperanza, de palabras que la periodista supo rescatar en un testimonio conmovedor y que, amorosamente, semana a semana, la amiga compartió con el escritor. Uno de los episodios menos conocidos y sin duda más interesantes en la vida del escritor colombiano, poeta y narrador de inagotables experiencias marítimas que conoció el Palacio Negro de finales de la década de los cincuenta, una conmovedora residencia en la Tierra.

Cartas de Alvaro Mutis a Elena Poniatowska

Three novellas by the new Latin American writer chronicle the life and adventures of Maqroll--adventurer, sailor, entrepreneur, and student of St. Francis. National ad/promo.

Three Novellas

Maqroll

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

In a big gothic house inhabited by ghosts, murderous passions arise and are intertwined. The green presence of the tropic serves as the setting for this literary masterpiece. In El diario de Lecumberri, Mutis presents the anecdotes and experiences that he lived in the fifteen months that he spent as prisoner in the Lecumberri jail.

La mansión de la araucaíma. Diario de lecumberri

La mansión de Araucaíma (relato gótico de tierra caliente) y otros relatos

Diario de Lecumberri ; La mansión de Araucaíma

La mansión de Araucaima

La mansión de Araucaíma

Selected Poems

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.

Four Novellas

The Adventures of Maqroll

Julián Meza

Este libro hace realidad un sueo de lvaro Mutis: la publicacin de La muerte del estratega solo, sin otros textos suyos que lo acompaen . La muerte del estratega merece una edicin as porque, como su autor dice, trata algo aparte de todo lo que ha escrito. El carcter particular de este relato dentro de la obra de lvaro Mutis se hace evidente en la conversacin que sostiene con Julin Meza en las pginas que preceden al texto, que arroja luz sobre la originalsima historia de Alar el Ilirio.

Alvaro Mutis

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