Often prefaces make you want to continue reading the book you would like to introduce as a mitral rite, but this does not depend (fortunately) on the preface. To avoid such unpleasant problems, in the dialogues with Leucos, Cesare Pavese himself wrote the preface expressing himself in a third person. Moreover, even when he came to Eugenio Montale to write a preface to Italo Svevo, his reading caused yawning.