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English Translation: Controversial, mordacious, ironic and ruthless they are some of the qualifying ones that are applied to Tom Wolfe. Nevertheless, the call father of the new media is also a lucid observer, equipped with a wide-awake and agile intelligence and an undeniable masters at the time of writing up articles that emphasize by their originality, bytheir surprising and revealing affirmations frequently, and by a writing that without a doubt the most reticent reader catches. The present article collection is the result of the observations of an author firmly anchored in the reality, impregnated of the daily thing and opened to the most burning subjects of the contemporary society. Wolfe writes about the changes that the American social structure has experienced, of electronic engineering and creation Valley the Silicone, of the scientific discoveries, the contemporary art, the function that develops the press, and of the paper of the intellectual. Wolfe indicates the declivity of the contemporary American narrative, defines its position as novelist and responds to the attacks of Norman Mailer, John Updike and John Irving, the three famous detractors of its last novel Everything a man.
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