An opinion columnist with a reputation for impertinence takes advantage of the cancer of a newspaper director to attack his wife, a journalist like him. She will be the official widow of Catalonia!, he prophesies. And he dedicates a series of articles to her that mock her while the disease takes her husband.
Ten years later, the woman who suffered this mockery reflects on the nature of the act that was committed against her. What motivates a defamer? How does defamation work? What wounds does it cause? What kind of diminished subject does it produce? These are questions that not only challenge the media, but also society as a whole and globally. Social networks have accustomed us to disqualification and insult by system. An increasing number of users practice them every day, an overwhelming majority of people take them without being able to protect themselves.
With this addictive and brilliant essay, Eva Piquer breaks with impunity. Far from falling into personalizing the attack, he uses the clarity of analysis and the strength of the arguments to win the game over the enemy. Reading it, you have the feeling that something worthwhile triumphs: the relevant action. A book that does not make blood, but justice.
