Heinrich Mann, unlike his brother Thomas, has only received in Spanish as a novelist. However, in the hardest times of the history of Europe, cultivated the essay from an uncompromising commitment to democratic culture. Continuing the tradition of radical literature, from Voltaire to Zola, always stood at the very front: in defense of the European spirit, knowing from his deep unitary old dialectic. Equipped with a look that runs through the arc d ela European Unfortunately, Heinrich Mann is the only one not fooled by the siren song of the great seducer of intelligence of the twentieth century. Nietzsche is not for him the solution, but the symptom of a deeper malady. These pages, humble and courageous, bring us the echo of a healthy life that scorns the gesture of aristocratic indignation mass culture. We speak of a faith that since Montaigne even dares to call certainty. The simplicity of democratic culture becomes here requirement as best you can the same time be as shared. The literature on these pages is true vocation of being noble and popular.