In addition to his prestige as an extraordinary poet, Eugenio Montejo must be recognized as a fundamental essayist. The issues that he addressed were diverse, from his personal conception of poetry to the vicissitudes of the plastic arts, passing through the evocative reflection, always lucid and meticulous, about classic and contemporary writers. Nor are there any shortage of metaphysical glimpses in which a sensibility forged in the second half of the 20th century confronts the advent of the new millennium. «We are no longer, then, modern, at least in the sense that Neruda, Bandeira, Eliot were. What are we? »He asks himself on occasion.

His prose bears the clear imprint of Montaigne, visible in its accentuated subjectivity, as well as in the cultivation of nuance and doubtful tone. His thought is characterized by the repudiation of superficial tellurisms; the abandonment of the magisteriums or the messianic attitudes, so frequent in Spanish-American letters; skepticism towards the discursive matrices of Modernity, especially the notion of progress applied to the arts. These distance shots can be appreciated both in his two books of essays, La ventana obliquea and El taller blanco, as well as in the abundant pieces that he published in other media and that are finally compiled here.

Since 1999 Pre-Textos has included several titles by Montejo in its catalogue. Now, in a systematic way, it collects his poetry (vol. I), his essays (vol. II) and his heteronymic writing (vol. III). The collection of scattered works up to now, as well as unpublished works that the author had arranged for publication, make this Complete Work an irreplaceable document.