Los papeles de Herralde

Although the profession of editor is enigmatic, these papers offer a frenetic and at times explosive collection of clues to know how Jorge Herralde exercised it. From the purchase of a typewriter, a table and a chair in 1968 to the decision to hire Patricia Highsmith, Tom Wolfe, Carmen Martín Gaite, Martin Amis or Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski, the book immerses the reader in daily turmoil of Anagrama through Herralde's letters to authors, agents, critics, journalists and colleagues since the founding of the publishing house and until 2000. That is where Herralde makes his decisions, almost always at full speed and almost always with good reasons. laconic: he discards manuscripts, negotiates rights, reviews evidence, suggests covers, proposes options and sometimes sends inflammatory letters or intervenes in public discussion without any political neutrality. His is a profession without laws, without rules, without guidelines, and that is why only the personality of the editor decides the unpredictable routes of the adventure: taste, intuition, recklessness and imagination determine the authors, the diatribes, the debates , the collections, the covers...