The author presents his book starting from the base: "Is it still necessary to tell stories, write poems, speculate about life and death, or is what remains just a space in the entertainment industry?"

It is common to hear complaints among writers regarding the loss of the old status of literature... Do authors have any relevant role in the world? Do they still have a role to play? These and other questions are those that Carlos Fortea raises and to which he tries to answer in this work about the position to which literary authors aspire.

“Un “papel en el mundo” tries to go through the history and present of Scheherazade's successors to find out if life still depends on their inventions, like that of the narrator of “One Thousand and One Nights,” or if with the supposed decline of paper books those who for so long wrote in it are leaving. If, as in roller coasters, after the slow ascent comes the moment before plunging down at full speed...

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