Although colleagues of the stature of Josep Pla said that Agustí Calvet (1887-1964) was "the most outstanding figure of peninsular journalism for a quarter of a century", he remains one of the least known and misunderstood figures of twentieth-century Spain. Gaziel was one of the greatest Spanish journalists, as well as one of the intellectuals most unjustly undervalued by official Catalan culture in recent years.

This volume gathers authentic gems of literary criticism and short essays - dedicated to Shakespeare, Gaudí, Goya, Maragall, Proust, Goethe, Cervantes, Baroja and Dostoyevsky, among many others - which draw attention, in times of identity disputes and border wars, to an author whose work represents an effort for concord and peace in the Peninsula, Europe and the world. A critic and wise humanist who, as anyone leafing through these pages will discern, was no stranger to anything human, and yet was persecuted and censored by all nationalisms.

Francisco Fuster, prologue and anthologist of the volume, is Tenured professor of Contemporary History at the University of Valencia, specialist in the history of Spanish culture in the Silver Age and has published books on the intimacy of the Baroja family and the journalism of Julio Camba, which won the Antonio Domínguez Ortiz Biographies Prize.