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The very first line of Aristotle’s Rhetoric runs thus: “ἡ ῥητορική ἐστιν ἀντίστροφος τῇ διαλεκτικῇ” (1). The quite wise ancient Greeks weened that every law-abiding democratic free citizen should be a dialectician and grasp the subtleties of that antistrophe, rhetoric, to shun being fooled by politicians, who are wont to stare at public opinion so as to learn from it which kind of enthymeme is the most persuasive in the agora (2). Public opinion has four faces, videlicet: orientation, degree, causality, and expectation. According to this, there must be four sorts of rhetoricians, and each one must’ve a specific class of audience. Such a couple gives rise to the question concerning the syllogisms, styles, moods, and proofs that an orator may handle to be a cajoling tongue. And, in our age, an age in which telecommunications are the main outlets of politicians, it’s unavoidable to deem the traits of the media they’ve at hand.

Karina Pacheco Medrano (Cuzco, 1969) es doctora en Antropología por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Su primera novela la publico en el 2006, el título “La voluntad del molle”. Más tarde llegarían otras como “Las orillas del aire” en el 2017; "El bosque de tu nombre" (2013); "Cabeza y orquídeas" (2012), ganadora del Premio Nacional de Novela Federico Villarreal en 2010, a las que siguieron algunos títulos más y varios premios. Ahora llega a España con su último publico publicado en Perú en 2022 y editado en España por Ediciones Destino.