La Majstro kaj Martinelli

A literary editor awakens from a surreal dream and soon receives a fax announcing the arrival of an urbane, old-fashioned professor who intends to manage his career. The professor proposes a deliberate campaign of rebranding and publicity, urging the editor to adopt a grandiose title and to let institutions and networks be used to build fame. The story traces their negotiations, practical schemes, and the editor's hesitations about identity and ambition. Through satirical episodes and social observation it examines vanity, the manufacture of reputation, and the workings of a small cultural and literary milieu.