Alvaro Mutis : Selected Poems

Resumen del libro

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 on the face of the earth, always in pursuit of love and fortune, even as he knows that neither can nor 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 surrealist-tinged poetry, but with an unmistakable voice of his own, gaining the admiration of Octavio Paz and Gabriel García Márquez, who would later call him 'one of the greatest writers of our time.' Here a selection of Mutiss haunting poems'invocations to a hidden god, private talismans of an outcast spirit'has been rendered into English by two of the finest translators at work today, Alastair Reid and Edith Grossman, and published in a bilingual edition.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Álvaro Mutisx{0026}lt;/B (Bogotá, 1923-Ciudad de México, 2013) es uno de los grandes creadores de la literatura hispanoamericana. A lo largo de su carrera recibió, entre otros, el Premio Nacional de las Letras (1974), el Premio Nacional de Poesía (1983), el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia (1988), el Prix Médicis Étranger (1989), el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (1997), el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana (1997) y el Premio Cervantes (2001). Entre su extensa obra se destacan x{0026}lt;I Diario de Lecumberri x{0026}lt;/I (1960), los libros de relatos x{0026}lt;I La mansión de Araucaímax{0026}lt;/I (1973) y x{0026}lt;I La muerte del estratega x{0026}lt;/I (1990); las novelas de la saga de Maqroll el Gaviero: x{0026}lt;I La Nieve del Almirantex{0026}lt;/I (1986), x{0026}lt;I Ilona llega con la lluviax{0026}lt;/I (1988), x{0026}lt;I Un bel morirx{0026}lt;/I (1989), x{0026}lt;I La última escala del tramp steamer x{0026}lt;/I (1988), x{0026}lt;I Amirbar x{0026}lt;/I (1990), x{0026}lt;I Abdul Bashur, soñador de navíosx{0026}lt;/I (1991) y x{0026}lt;I Tríptico de mar y tierrax{0026}lt;/I (1993), reeditadas en dos volúmenes por Alfaguara en 2023, y su poesía, reunida en la antología x{0026}lt;I Summa de Maqroll el Gavierox{0026}lt;/I (2008; Lumen, 2023).x{0026}lt;/P