At the end of October, just a few weeks ago, Enrique Lynch returned to bookstores with «Ensayo sobre lo que no se ve» (Essay on the Unseen), a new twist on the notion of image that, in the end, turned out being his unexpected farewell essay.

"It is horrible what they are doing to this poor country", can be read in his last entry on Twitter; an involuntary epitaph of a philosopher and publisher who died this Tuesday at the age of 72, in Barcelona, ??the city to which he was exiled in 1976 and from where he never left.

Essayist, publisher and legendary professor of aesthetics at the University of Barcelona, ??Lynch was director of the Gedisa publishing house, advisor to Carlos Barral at Argos Vergara and head of Muchnik Editores. As an essayist, his writing focused on the philosophical field and, more precisely, on the undeterminate space in which philosophy becomes literature. He also served as a translator for authors such as Thomas Hobbes, François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Mazzino Montinari, Jon Elster and Paul de Man.

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