Estilo rico, estilo pobre

A practical, rigorous and fun guide to the good and bad uses of language. There is no doubt that when it comes to expressing ourselves formally, we all try to do it well, and that we have a series of slogans in our heads about what this means. What this book raises is how well these slogans are on track. It is not the typical style manual that says if "infant" is written with a capital or small letter, if the name of Paris is "Parisian" or "Parisien", or if "script" goes with an accent or without an accent. Luis Magrinyà proposes a series of useful, fun and reasoned observations, based on a multitude of examples of texts by great (and small) writers, to invite you to think a bit about the language. Its main purpose is reassuring: to offer indications that often the style does not have to be where we have been told, and to encourage us to free ourselves from those prejudices, so often unconscious, that limit our disposition when it comes to expressing ourselves and writing well.