New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010

Human beings are motivated by emotions and feelings, so it is important to know how to manage them adequately. There are two fundamental ingredients: passion and a believable communicator. Frankness is difficult, but it is synonymous with ensured success.

Cos peitos desenchufados is a new literary journey based on the poetic image, on its power and on the possibilities of words. Recycling, surgery and speech techniques make up a permeable and complex poetic ‘I’ that only finds its reason for being through the creation of a language of its own.

The first chapter of Cosas que pasan is called ‘The Whirlwind’, and the story as a whole has something of a whirlwind to it from beginning to end: a succession of not exactly everyday events, often awful or disturbing or stunning, which spin around and around the reader, revealing to them, little by little, something that at first might seem insufficiently developed. Novel?

This book starts from the premise that within the European Left, which has cherished such a strong desire for equality and social justice, a collectivist impulse, at times authoritarian, has become apparent, contrary to the best ideals of emancipation. This impulse spanned the entire 20th century and is still present in part of the Left at the start of the 21st.