writer and journalist Martha Robles gifts This Friday at 21:00. inside Alicante Royal High School Casino last book, What does spring do to cherry trees?A new article on the relationship between emotions and artistic creation through stories of love and heartbreak from great creators.
Created by Spacewith an agile and direct style 544 pageswriter immerses himself in the lives of creators from many different disciplines -musicians, writers, poets, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, photographers, etc.- many of them turbulent and interspersed with magnificent episodes intense as it is devastating accompanying creative personalities.
“Love and heartbreak or the loss of a loved one They provoke the greatest emotions in all people. Artists are also forced to create. They need this. Creation is the only thing that frees them from themselves, from the anxieties of feeling, from their own intensities exacerbated by passion,” says Marta Robles at the opening of the book, which refers to enthusiasm, taking its name from a poem by Neruda. The flowering that gives way to fruit that soon disappears and falls until next spring.
What does spring do to cherry trees? gifts seventy historical chaptersgrouped into thirteen thematic chapters, covering all aspects of the love and heartbreak of the great creators, from the purest passion to the most perverse narcissism… and crime. There is a special section in the book worthy of a detective novel, murdererswhere the author stands out – figuratively and literally – among other bloody-handed creators Caravaggio, Nancy Crampton, Anne Perry and William S. Burroughs. But the book is also ladyboys who created the legendTirso de Molina, Zorrilla, Mozart or Molière) to those tortured as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Larra, Toulouse-Latrec or Marilyn Monroethrough misogynistic creators or bisexuals, maniacs or liberals, love triangles or those who steal the shine from the other (almost always the other) Robert Anchor and Gerda Taro or Octavio Paz and Elena Garro.
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Writer
Marta Robles (Madrid, 1963) Bachelor of Information Sciencesthe journalism branch is from the ICC and has been practicing its profession in all kinds of media for thirty years.
He has written eight non-fiction books.: the world in my hands (1991), Mistress of PSOE (1992), Luck’s Choice (1999), Valencia Oceanographic Park catalog (2003), Madrid and Martha (2011) You first (2015), do what you fear (2016) and bodily passions. The love of kings that changed the history of Spain (2021); and eight fictional: The eleven faces of María Lisboa (2001), Diary of a Pregnant Forties (2008), Don Juan (2009), Luisa and the mirrors (2013) -Fernando Lara Novel Award-, Obscene, less than two inches (2017) -Gijón Silverio Cañada Crime Novel Award finalist-, HNegra (2017), Bad luck (2018) -Cartagena Negra finalist and Aragón Negro Special Award- and Girl you don’t know how to love (2020) -2019 Castellón Letras del Mediterráneo Narrative Award and National Literary Award Alicante Noir 2021-.
Among his numerous awards, it is worth noting the golden TP, two gold and two silver Antennas, golden Woman, National Communication Award, Public Relations Award for Madrid’s most beloved journalist. Fernando Lara Award and Literary Award from the Valencian Trade Association for his literary career.