The Adventures and Misfortunes of Marklore

Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero

★Go to every port in the world and live a magnificent life with constant failure★
The grandeur of Homer and the spirit of Don Quixote
※The heroic loser epic and the eternal wanderer legend※
【Content Introduction】
The epic life of "Lookout Mark Lore", a heroic legend consisting of seven parts.
We are all Marklore. —Gabriel García Márquez. Marklore is everything I have been, everything I haven't been, everything I haven't confessed. It is everything I want to be, everything I should be, but never have been. Marklore is a reflection of me: my glory. —Álvaro Mutis. He is a man without an identity, who has never had a real place in the world.
He is the lookout, on the mast, among the birds, facing the vast and absolute loneliness;
He is not fond of adventure, but he always moves forward in the face of adversity;
When he interacts with others, whether as friends or lovers, he does not talk about promises or owes anything;
He rarely confronts people, trusting fate to teach them a lesson;
He always carries a book with him, and through reading he grasps the reality of life;
He longed for happiness, but was defeated again and again;
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As the adventurer and protagonist of the Mutis novels, Marklore is a hero who traverses land and sea, unbound by the boundaries of time and space, an "individual living in an epic world." He can't help but stray from the bustling port and the stability of life. He transports lumber, runs a bar and a brothel, smuggles arms, and mines for gold... He undertakes countless absurd jobs that skirt the legal line, all in an effort to dispel the dullness of time and prevent himself from sliding into the emptiness that threatens to overtake him.
This eternally wandering lookout is Mutis's alter ego. Márquez said, "We are all Macklaus," and Macklaus is the prototype of every contemporary human being. "We are all exiled by our childhoods, by our own lives." His fate mirrors the fate of every person struggling in reality. He is forever adrift, wandering, "with no place to return to, and no desire to return anywhere."
In this "novel series" consisting of seven parts, Mutis gives the narrative an extraordinary modern way - letting the time and life in the novel surge back and forth like waves. In the end, the seven parts overlap and stir to become a spectacular personal epic.
【Recommendation】
Read just one page of any of his books and you'll understand: Álvaro Mutis's entire work, and indeed his entire life, conveys a single, unwavering message: Paradise lost can never be regained. Mark Lore is not alone, that much is clear. We are all Mark Lore.
For Marquez, there's nothing he can't accept, not even death; and there's nothing he can't let go of, even the things that most deeply touch his emotions. He's constantly wandering, and his soul belongs to a distant era. "He accurately rejects certain things because he adheres to a philosophy of not trying to change others—everyone is just the way they are, that's it."
——Zhao Song (writer and critic)
In this novel, the poet Mutis becomes the unbridled narrator. In the universe he creates, Marklore is a lookout, an explorer, a wanderer, a seeker of love, a man steeped in memory, a man who defies the rules, a man who embraces adventure, a man who bears misfortune, a man who explores the unknown, and a man who embraces life's surprises. Marklore is the man we all aspire to be.
—Hu Sang (poet, translator, scholar)
Whether in terms of structure, language, content or thought, its appropriateness is felt everywhere. When reading, one is immersed in its exciting artistic sublimity from beginning to end.
——A Yi (writer)
Marklore is an imagined space created from all-too-familiar fragments of reality, both small and large.
—Mario Benedetti (poet)
Mark Lor is an adventurer, a philosopher, a man of feelings, and most importantly, a surreal character in Latin American literature.
—Louis Anson (author)
Mark Lorre's story as a whole belongs to that class of literary works whose entire presentation seems tinged with impossibility, whose origins and composition are so detached from the usual ways of organizing works that we realize that we cannot foresee what we will read from it and that we may never truly understand it.
—Francisco Goldman (author)

2022-08-01

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