An almogávar cross and Levantine landscape in Álvaro Mutis

Abstract

The narrative saga Empresas y tribulaciones de Maqroll el Gaviero concludes with two texts: “Jamil” and “Un rey mago en Pollensa”; in both, the rules that led the works of their protagonist are changed. The hopelessness as a vital principle is attenuated, but he continues to see existence from melancholy - this is a distinctive trait of Álvaro Mutis’ narrative. This happens in an orientalist landscape where the History of the Mediterranean acquires great importance and it is the last hope to the anguish of living