Emptiness is the place in which life s linearity collapses giving novelty a chance, says Hugo Mujica. As such, La casa y otros ensayos is that chance. In this book, emptiness is filled with a silence that is abounding in meaning because it is not born out of nothingness but out of intense need. And so, new life and expression arouse to give sense to the loneliness of our human condition in the house that is our own body. "