Our time is that of the fall in the present. It is impossible to build new social pacts and, therefore, the opportunities to imagine the future are few. There are no utopias, only a pragmatism that bets on what is useful. Our society suffers from the disenchantment of democracy, the logic of the market and globalization, unable to produce ideas for the future. What is the output? Richard Rorty would say: it is not reason that changes things, but imagination.

Building on this principle, this book praises disenchanted optimism, where questions are more important than answers. What is the role that words play in the current state of the art? How are the world and the so-called Republic of Letters connected? What idea of ​​generation do writers born from the seventies have? Why do they deny the concept of collective? What is the relationship between politics and literature? At what point did the critic become an obituary editor? Is literature part of the show?

This is an essay on the language, the idea of ​​generations and the aesthetics of contemporary literature; but it is also a complaint that points out the mechanisms that have caused the gap between creation and action, ethics and aesthetics, literature and the public space.