According to the French writer Stendhal, politics in a literary work is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, they both have the same effect. With that well-known reflection the writer Belen Gopegui began a speech about politics and literature she had to give at a university in California, which is now rewritten in this book. We picked up the threads that come out of this thinking and, by analyzing the shots from politics in Basque literature, the writer Eider Rodriguez has made the foreword for this edition. Remembering a phrase of British critic Terry Eagleton, she has completed Gopegui’s thought: "Ideology, like halitosis, is what the other fellow has."
