“Forgive me if I appropriate, with infinite respect, the expression that Nabokov coined to say that the book that the reader is holding is made up of strong opinions. They respond to reflections on a very diverse spectrum in the field of literature, culture and politics, always approached from what could be called the subjective essay, that is, an attempt to get involved as a writer in the issues that, precisely as a writer, challenge me. and again and before which I do not have a politically correct position, but rather something daring, somewhat melancholic, even somewhat ironic, and always determined. ”This is how Adolfo García Ortega begins this surprising book in which, with the experience of more than thirty years of literature behind him, proposes a personal journey through some references of current culture and the world. Everything fits in this encyclopedic book: the passage of time, music, Gonzalo Suárez, Doctorow, intimate experiences, Julián Herbert, jihadism and identity dangers, Günter Grass, John Ford, Annie Ernaux, cannibalism, Rushdie, Wittgenstein, DeLillo, Atxaga, Mordzinski, Stevenson, Longares, the automata, Caravaggio, Bill Viola, Nabokov, the baroque and a long list of names and subjects. In the mosaic of "ghosts" that make up these pages, the author does not evade the ethical commitment, sometimes very close to the aesthetic commitment, nor the audacious proposal of a literary theory.