I am pleased to be able to take another step in my simian life; setting up my own publishing company in order to share with you, readers, the most interesting texts and knowledge that I am discovering in this new life.  Everything that I have become has been thanks to the cinema, to respect for the historical memory and to the comic, specialties which have allowed me to situate myself in this new world and the protagonists of this new literary adventure.

Left behind are the success and fame of my days in the music-hall, the weariness and anger of the many instructors I had until I could choose my own teachers. And still in my memory are also the first months of captivity by those humans which I used in order to learn basic behavior, to be capable of shaking hands in a sign of solemn agreement and pronouncing my first word with a human voice: “Hello!”

It is quite something for someone who was a monkey to relive his past life and advance in this new, technological universe. If I had clung to my origins, to evocations of my youth, it would have been impossible to accomplish what I have accomplished. I still have two scars from the two shots the day I was captured and I remember the smell of the cage in which I was a prisoner, the harshness of the voyage, the whippings that stimulated my evolution. Attaining the average education of a European man has obtained for me this very special, human way out that I want to share with my simian congeners.

I have achieved all that I had set out to achieve. And never let it be said that it wasn’t worth the effort. However, it is not the opinion of men that interests me: I only want to expand knowledge to all of you, knowledge that enabled this monkey to cease being just another monkey to become an informed human being.

Sincerely,
Red Peter.
Proud editor of El Mono Libre.

Presentation inspired by Franz Kafka’s short story, A Report to an Academy, translated to Spanish by Jordi Rottner.