One of the grand old South American masters, Álvaro Mutis, has passed away; see, for example, the BBC report -- or, to get a better feel for the man, Francisco Goldman's Q & A with him at Bomb.
The standard volume in English is the collection The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, from New York Review Books -- see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- but he wrote considerably more and was also a highly regarded poet; check out, for example, his Summa de Maqroll el Gaviero: Poesia reunida (1947-2003) (see the Alfaguara publicity page, or get your copy from Amazon.com).
If you need additional reasons to read him, El País helpfully offers Por qué hay que leer a Álvaro Mutis, según los escritores.
The standard volume in English is the collection The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, from New York Review Books -- see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- but he wrote considerably more and was also a highly regarded poet; check out, for example, his Summa de Maqroll el Gaviero: Poesia reunida (1947-2003) (see the Alfaguara publicity page, or get your copy from Amazon.com).
If you need additional reasons to read him, El País helpfully offers Por qué hay que leer a Álvaro Mutis, según los escritores.