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Rivers, lakes, oceans and fountains have been a source of inspiration for many of history’s composers, creating music from the sensuality of such vital energy, and their work lets us dream and imagine water through sound; its clarity, the noise it makes as it flows, the shades of the sea.
It is the year 824 when three peculiar characters - Paio the hermit, Teodomiro the bishop, and his assistant Martín de Bilibio - 'find' a tomb, the remains of which, they claim, belong to Saint James the Apostle. And so, in the Libredón forest, close to finis terrae or the end of the world, they create the Iocus Sancti Jacobi, for the greater glory of God.
On the afternoon that Otto and Clea arrive in the Buenavista retirement home, no one can imagine that what these two elderly people bring with them is more than the weight of two lives worn by time and age. Not even Ilona, the young carer who spends her days with them, has an idea what those three months with them will mean for her life.
A very useful tool for all those professionals who work with these boys and girls. It defines the disorder in a clear way and offers practical advice to use in and out of the classroom.
Did Federico García Lorca’s lover Enrique Amorim steal his corpse? Did he disguise himself as Jean Paul Sartre to attend a secret meeting between Chaplin and Picasso? Did he sabotage Pablo Neruda’s efforts to win the Nobel Prize?
Madrid, 1935. A young American woman arrives at the Residencia de Estudiantes, where the creme de la creme of Republican intellectuals get together. Real and fictional characters meet on the city's streets. The famous evenings spend in the 'colina de los chopos' attract arists, musicians, dandys, poets, dreamers and students from all over.
Seville, the middle of 19th century. Josefina Perrier, a beautiful, intelligent young dreamer of 18, aspires to marry her cousin Maurice Girau, owner of a number of highly prestigious factories in France.
In 1142, at sixty-three years of age, the philosopher, poet and musician, Pierre Abelard, the ‘Lion of Paris’, died; twenty-one years later, his lover and wife, Heloise, followed him. They were buried together in a monastery in Champagne and, since 1817 their bodies have lain in the same tomb in a Paris cemetery.
This book is not a story, a treatise or a manual that analyzes loves, that state that escapes any attempt to control, understand or overcome it. It is not a work on the philosophy of love, but it does contain philosophical analyses. It is not a confrontation between love and morals, but it acknowledges that love and morals are twins who quarrel daily.