Manual de literatura para caníbales

Tras haber perdido su trabajo y a su esposa —después de un matrimonio fallido—, William Least Heat-Moon llega a un punto de inflexión en su vida y decide coger su camioneta y realizar un viaje de 13.000 millas por carreteras secundarias, llamadas "Blue Highways" porque aparecían dibujadas en azul en los mapas antiguos de Estados Unidos. Aclamada como una obra maestra de la literatura de viajes norteamericana, Carreteras azules, más que una simple novela autobiográfica, es un viaje inolvidable a lo largo de los caminos de Estados Unidos, que se adentra en las ciudades y pueblos...

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"In August 1592, a sheriff and his two assistants arrive at the monastery of Úbeda, with the secret task of transferring the body of Fray Juan de la Cruz, the great Carmelite poet and mystic, who died the year before, to his final abode in Segovia. When they find him 'incorrupt and as fresh as when he died,' there is an ecstatic fervor for the friar's body...all kinds of adventures and misfortunes happen, with characters that seem to be drawn from mythological deeds. The story told by Luis Felipe Fabre masterfully intertwines with the friar's verses, as if they had prophesied the delirium...

Bonnefoy se define por su dimensión existencial y ontológica, y por la función que asigna a la experiencia poética como espacio de búsqueda y cuestionamiento del ser.