Former scholarship holder of the Government of Japan at Tohoku University, CĂTĂLIN GHIŢĂ (b. 18.10.1976) is, since 2015, university professor. dr. hab. at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Craiova and member of the "Al. Piru" Doctoral School, where he supervises doctorates in comparative literature. He published, as author or editor, 25 volumes, published in the country and abroad (Great Britain, Poland, the Netherlands), for which he received numerous literary awards. This book gathers editorials published in the 2020-2021 period in the magazine Opt Motive under the heading "The Gordian Knot Mistake".