Miseria y gloria de la crítica literaria

This book covers countless lapidary and scathing judgments on great authors and lofty works that, to the relief of readers, writers and scholars, were not able to put an end to a good book or a good poet. Some criticism, as Constantino Bértolo warns us, creator of this extraordinary anthology of error -or cruel success-, would make its authors blush; others, however, remind us that the transformation of the private pleasure of reading into a profession supposes a search and not just a loss. Poverty and glory of literary criticism offers us a look at literature in which subjective judgments, personal taste, prejudice, hatred and hobbies make up a rough and striking fabric where irony, sarcasm or simple insult are mixed with critical rigor and the noblest desire for knowledge.