His high-pitched voice is sustained "like the injustice he denounces" over the passage of time and fashions, including literary ones. And it is his anarchism the belly in which Rafael Barrett's writing is born, is born and is universalized. His essays, conferences and notes display with irony and certainty his anger and contempt for the owners of the land, the laws and the States, anger that without neglecting the pedagogical work or the literary aesthetics made his word a scourge of the powerful.
The texts that we present today do not therefore constitute a novelty, beyond the careful selection and rigorous preliminary study of Santiago Alba Rico, but an act of justice. You always have to go back to Barrett. Every now and then we editors must pay attention to these texts that should not, like daily bread, be absent from daily reading.
