Bukowski always wrote out of vital necessity, with the urgency of someone who only finds meaning on a blank page. This volume brings together Wine-Stained Notebooks, Absence of the Hero, and, for the first time in Spanish, The Mathematics of Breath and the Route, a collection of stories, essays, and interviews that revolve around writing and the craft of living as a writer. His strong personal style is strengthened throughout these pages, where political incorrectness, boastfulness, and tenderness go hand by hand.