In front of Montaigne, who shares with Plato the reluctance that the philosopher had expressed before the writing, Quevedo teaches us that, thanks to this and the printing press, the great souls can achieve survival. Fast forward to a genuine phenomenology of modernity, the Spanish poet affirms that the printing press is the learned heroin that frees from oblivion those who, being wise, do not deserve to die, and with whom, thanks to it, one can, forever, live in authentic conversation, for the books "to the dream of life speak awake".
In this essay Darío Villanueva analyses the textual genesis and poetic form of Quevedo's composition, inserts it into the tradition of stoic origin that enhances the value of wisdom as the winner of time, and claims from it a "poetic of reading" that may consist of the set of principles or rules that the texts contain , more or less explicitly, in order to be read in optimal conditions and with the best hermeneutic success.