Isidor Balaguer Sanchis, Doro Balaguer (Valencia, 1931), was born in a family of industrialists and dealers that was related to artistic culture. The father, very fond of painting and music, took part in the reformist movement that, in the thirties, led to initiatives such as the Sala Blava, Acció d'Art or the journal Taula de les Lletres Valencianes. The author of this book, graduated in Fine Arts and lived in Paris for some time where he could know the most up-to-date international painting trends, which were practically unknown in Spain at that time and despised in the dominant academic environment. He was a member of the Grup Parpalló and after that he gave up painting. During a lot of years, he was an activist in the Spanish Communist Party and held an outstanding place in the Valencian organization. He belonged to the central committee and was representative in some democratic coordination organizations during the Transition. Later, he led Unitat del Poble Valencià. He collaborated with some journals and newspapers. The book contains a very interesting combination between the author's personal past memories and his current opinions about some issues connected with arts, politics, nationalism and other subjects that take place in the Valencian Country but also in a geographical and social worldwide framework. It is therefore classified in the memoirs genre; that's why all kinds of facts and people appear -Vicent Ventura, Josep Renau, Joan Fuster, Ricardo Muñoz Suay, but also Bush or Putin or José María Aznar and many others- and at the same time, it is also an essay that collects opinions, answers and observations about present reality and immediately previous periods one. They are proposals from a civic perspective and, without a doubt, arouse in the reader other opinions, other answers and other observations, in a dialog that is tacitly asked by Doro Balaguer by putting his own ones on the paper.