Lo que la primavera hace con los cerezos

After rummaging in the back room of our history to show us how the "carnal passions" of kings, queens and powerful determined the course of events ("great decisions are not made in royal audiences or offices, but in short distances"), Marta Robles explores in this new essay the relationship between emotions and artistic creation. With the agile and direct style that characterizes her, the author plunges us into the lives of creators from very different disciplines -musicians, writers, poets, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, photographers...-, many of them tumultuous and dotted with astonishing episodes as intense as destructive that accompany creative personalities. Creation? Destruction? Love? This book talks about it, about love and heartbreak, passion and sex, abandonment, loss and pain, and how this alchemical combination, as magical as it is difficult to explain -and, sometimes, to live- acts in the creative drive of geniuses. That effect so prodigiously condensed in Neruda's verse that gives the book its title: "what spring does with the cherry trees."