The Spanish writer Cristina Monge is the current winner of the Paidós Essay Prize for Contra el descontento. In it, she analyses the main challenges of the century, such as job insecurity, digital loneliness and disaffection towards institutions and their representatives. The author argues that we are living through a period of profound discontent that calls democratic coexistence into question; a critical analysis that culminates, however, in a hopeful outlook on this collective unease: if we revive public discourse, if we defend the facts and rebuild a new social contract, we will strengthen democracy.






