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AutorRoger Bartra
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There is a question that usually makes interviewees un-
comfortable, and which journalists like to ask a lot: Would
you live your life in the same way if you were born again?
When taking on the task of preparing a new edition of this book
I asked myself: Would I write it in the same way if I could start all
over again? In a certain way I could rewrite it (on the other hand, I
cannot live my life all over again).  e question is not an absolutely
utopian one, for on many occasions I have encountered the practi-
cal problem of preparing a new edition. Now again I ask myself that
uncomfortable question, and my answer is: Yes, I would write the
same book again, but I would like to retouch and correct it.
is is exactly what I have done each time around. It has been
like planting the thorny cutting of the same rosebush that has previ-
ously been pruned; in this labor of intellectual gardening I have cut
away many stems which seemed to me withered or bent: dogmatic
expressions, arbitrary qualifi ers, excessive adjectives, and affi rma-
tions that I no longer agree with.  e stems of this plant are prickly
and I have hurt my fi ngers when trimming it, as if the acute recollec-
tions of old mistakes had hardened in my memory. I have, however,
Note to the
Expanded and
Corrected Edition
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