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Summary: Una nota a los hispano parlantes
Review: El delicioso dominio del idioma y el profundo sentido poético de que Mutis hace gala con maestrÃa sin igual, serÃan suficientes para motivar a los pocos que todavÃa no lo hayan leÃdo. Si a esto le sumamos el encanto innegable del Gaviero y esa sensibilidad tan suya por todos aquellos que se mueven por los bordes esquivos de la fortuna y que nos pone la carne de gallina, cuando nos dejamos llevar de la mano sabia de Mutis por todos esos parajes de una salvaje belleza o de un sórdido atractivo, no nos quedará ninguna duda de que tenemos en nuestras manos el pensamiento, la poesÃa y la sensibilidad de un gigante de las letras latinoamericanas. Motivo de justificadÃsimo orgullo para todos aquellos que tenemos la fortuna de compartir, con él, la patria.
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Summary: Una nota a los hispano parlantes
Review: I discovered the Adventures of Maqroll on the discount table outside my neighborhood bookstore. After reading the first few pages I was hooked. Mutis is one of those rare authors who, in a few words, can take you inside the soul of a character. He creates men and women who desire and seek out the perfect something that they know is out there, somewhere, in the next port or just over the horizon. Mutis can make you feel their experience as he describes it. I find parallels with John Steinbeck in the work of Alvaro Mutis. Both writers created characters outside the mainstream who, nontheless, appeal to us as human beings. Both find beauty and excitement as clearly in rusty iron as in a pair of enticing eyes. The Adventures of Maqroll is a 20th century quest that will be appreciated by anyone who admires the self-directed life.
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Summary: Alvaro Mutis: A maritime Steinbeck
Review: I discovered the Adventures of Maqroll on the discount table outside my neighborhood bookstore. After reading the first few pages I was hooked. Mutis is one of those rare authors who, in a few words, can take you inside the soul of a character. He creates men and women who desire and seek out the perfect something that they know is out there, somewhere, in the next port or just over the horizon. Mutis can make you feel their experience as he describes it. I find parallels with John Steinbeck in the work of Alvaro Mutis. Both writers created characters outside the mainstream who, nontheless, appeal to us as human beings. Both find beauty and excitement as clearly in rusty iron as in a pair of enticing eyes. The Adventures of Maqroll is a 20th century quest that will be appreciated by anyone who admires the self-directed life.
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Summary: Brilliant, haunting
Review: This book is in the top 10 of my lifetime reading list. A mix of Conrad and Don Quijote. the first paragraph of "Amirbar" is stunning. Out of print already? Don't we read foreign authors or translations?
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Summary: Brilliant, haunting
Review: This book is in the top 10 of my lifetime reading list. A mix of Conrad and Don Quijote. the first paragraph of "Amirbar" is stunning. Out of print already? Don't we read foreign authors or translations?
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