José Luis de Diego highlights the prevalence of literary agents now days and the coexistence between alternative and marginal publishers with large multinational conglomerates.

After the work on the history of the book and the publishing in Latin America that José Luis de Diego presented in “La otra cara de Jano,” one of the greatest Argentine specialists in the matter, he proposes to return to certain objects of investigation and adds others with the honest intention of facing history from different perspectives.

With a remarkable ability to combine historiographical accuracy with anecdote, significant detail, and the hidden background of the industry, these essays address the lesser-known intellectual networks and editorial projects of the continent to understand the cultural contribution of companies like Ercilla in Chile, Monte Ávila in Venezuela and Santiago Rueda in Argentina.  They also analyze the role of the editor in different fictions and express an overview of the publications in the second half of the sixties.

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