At the last Madrid Book Fair there was a tense moment when a person who was signing in a booth gathered a queue of 2,000 followers. The crowd was such that the pass collapsed; the Municipal Police had to arrive, pull that person out from behind, put him quickly in a car and transfer him a few hundred meters further, to an isolated booth where the queue could be organized more safely. Well, the star that was the object of this laborious operation was not a Nobel Prize winner, of course, and not even an international author of brilliantbest sellersbut oneinfluencer(terrifying word) of the TikTok social network, a twenty-year-old with some small books, like adolescent diaries, which who knows if she really wrote.
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