La autora de Br�jula para navegantes emocionales nos alienta a sacar provecho de nuestra capacidad innata para amar y para transformar, a encontrar los cauces donde nuestra creatividad y nuestra energ�a fluyan a trav�s de las trampas y los dones que nos acechan a diario. Nacemos inocentes. Sin emociones mezcladas, sin dudas, sin miedos, sin mentiras. Llegamos para descubrir, luminosos y coherentes. Vulnerables pero abiertos al mundo, animados por una curiosidad rotunda y radical, dotados de la pasi�n por vivir. Es entonces cuando comienza la b�squeda del sentido en una realidad diaria de luces y de sombras donde nos asaltan el amor, el miedo, la tristeza o la tentaci�n. C�mo nos enfrentemos a estas etapas cruciales, desde la inocencia o desde la rigidez, determinar� el tejido de nuestra existencia, de cada emoci�n, de cada gesto, de cada pensamiento. La cr�tica ha dicho... �Una obra bell�sima, extraordinaria, transformadora. Rigor, poes�a y lucidez trenzados en un libro tan necesario como inspirador. Gracias, Elsa.� Alex Rovira �He disfrutado y aprendido con este trabajo que tiene un pulso tan fino y una penetraci�n clarividente. Hace pensar, obliga a detenerse, preguntarse, tomar notas. Gracias por esta aportaci�n tan necesaria, sensible, sentida e inteligente.� Javier Urra �Forma pr�ctica de transformar las obligaciones y los miedos en una celebraci�n diaria.� La Vanguardia ENGLISH DESCRIPTION We are born innocent. Without mixed emotions, without doubts, without fears, without lies. We arrive ready to discover, luminous and lucid. Vulnerable but open to the world, driven by an emphatic and radical curiosity, gifted with a passion for life. It is then that the search for meaning starts, in a daily reality of lights and shadows, where love, fear, sadness and temptation strike. The way we face these crucial phases--with innocence or with rigidity--will determine the fabric of our existence, of each emotion, each expression, each thought.

Anaya draws on the Spanish-American folklore with which he grew up in this unique depiction of a Hispanic childhood in the Southwest.

A Chilean writer named Julio and his wife, Gloria, are at a low point in their lives. Constantly bickering, the pair are beset by worries about money, their writing, and their son (who may or may not be plying the oldest profession in Marrakesh). When Julio's boyhood best friend, now a famous artist, lends the couple his luxurious Madrid apartment for the summer, it is an escape for both - but in particular for Julio, who fantasizes about the garden next door and the erotic life of the lovely young aristocratic woman who inhabits it. But Julio's life - and career - unravel In Madrid: he is rebuffed by a famous literary agent, Nuria Monclus, who detests him and his novel; his son's friend from Marrakesh moves in and causes havoc; and Gloria begins to drink. In the face of pitiless adversity, Julio's talent inexorably begins to fade. The garden next door, however, is also Gloria, who has been doing some creating of her own. It is this twist that transforms Donoso's brilliant satire of the writer's life into something even greater: a carefully crafted and bitteily comic meditation on gardens, deceit, and the nature of a writer's muse.

Twilight of the Avant-Garde addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.