Dykstra Krystin - Maqroll's Prayer And Other Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Peer to Gabriel Garc a Marquez and Octavio Paz & Aacute;lvaro 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.& Aacute;lvaro 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 Garc a M rquez 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.
Title: Maqroll's Prayer And Other Poems
Author(s): Dykstra Krystin
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590178744
Pages: 128 Pages
Publication Date: 3/12/2024
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets