“Books are a mirror: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” Carlos Ruiz Zafón wrote in a chapter of The Shadow of the Wind. In an era marked by contemporary trends to revise classic literary works and exclude “inconvenient” authors from the collective memory of readers, these words take on new significance.  Do these practices reveal our fear of the past? Are they manifestations of a “political correctness terror” or attempts to re-evaluate our culture? Or is it purely about money?