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Álvaro Mutis

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Álvaro Mutis


Born
in Bogota, Colombia
August 25, 1923

Died
September 22, 2013

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry

Influences
Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, Saint-John Perse, Walt Whitman ...more


Novelista y poeta colombiano. Uno de los grandes escritores hispanoamericanos contemporáneos. Autor destacado por la riqueza verbal de su producción y una característica combinación de lírica y narratividad. A lo largo de su carrera literaria ha recibido, entre otros, el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia en 1988, el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 1997, el Premio Reina Sofía de Poesía Iberoamericana en 1997, el Premio Cervantes en 2001 y el Premio Internacional Neustadt de Literatura en 2002.

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Average rating: 4.06 · 6,374 ratings · 685 reviews · 130 distinct works • Similar authors
The Adventures and Misadven...
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Ilona llega con la lluvia
3.98 avg rating — 944 ratings — published 1988 — 32 editions
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La nieve del almirante
3.98 avg rating — 895 ratings — published 1983 — 30 editions
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La última escala del Tramp ...
3.91 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 1988 — 37 editions
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Un bel morir
4.11 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1989 — 19 editions
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Abdul Bashur, soñador de na...
3.99 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 1991 — 22 editions
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Maqroll: Three Novellas : T...
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La mansión de Araucaíma / D...
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Amirbar
3.93 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1986 — 15 editions
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Tríptico de mar y tierra
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Series by Álvaro Mutis

La nieve del almirante Ilona llega con la lluvia Un bel morir La última escala del Tramp ... Amirbar Abdul Bashur, soñador de na... Tríptico de mar y tierra
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“Everything changed when I met the girl. She penetrated a corner of my soul that had been kept sealed and even I didn't know was there. With her gestures, the scent of her skin, her sudden, intense glances that filled me with overwhelming tenderness, with her dependence that was a kind of unthinking, absolute acceptance, she could rescue me instantly from my confusions and obsessions, my discouragement and failure, or my simple daily routine, and leave me inside a radiant circle made of throbbing energy and powerful certainty, like the effects of an unknown drug that produces unconditional happiness.”
― Álvaro Mutis, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
tags: love
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“Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.”
― Alvaro Mutis, Die Abenteuer und Irrfahrten des Gaviero Maqroll : die sieben Maqroll-Romane
tags: dreams, inspirational, life
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“Weather is a purely personal matter. There is no such thing as a climate that is cold or hot, good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. People take it upon themselves to create a fantasy in their imagination and call it weather. There's only one climate in the world, but the message that nature sends is interpreted according to strictly personal, non-transferable rules.”
― Álvaro Mutis, The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
tags: humour, philosophy, weather
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