A staging of reading reports, manuscript review, and the absurdities of the current publishing field.
Foreword by Daniela Tarazona.
How do you choose which books to publish? Some editors rely on their criteria and their programs, while others have "expert" readers, outside the publishing house, who evaluate the texts for them, sometimes creating unlikely or dramatic situations, where the years of work (brilliant or mediocre) of an author are left in the hands of veiled characters. Taking the form of a play, this sarcastic staging of the reviewing process is as critical as it is devastating.
"For the reviewer, making a reading report is money in the bag. But, more than for the payment —which is not much—, or for the prestige —which is nonexistent—, the referee does it because he maintains the hope that all his ancestors had, at some point: that of discovering, one ...read more
