The author himself has said that the texts of this volume "can be read as lost pages of a diary of a writer and also as the first tentative steps of a future autobiography". In this miscellaneous book from this Argentinean who has become a point of reference for the new generation, the indispensable Borges, the eccentric Roberto Arlt, Macedonio Fernandéz and Witold Gombrowicz live side by side. It contains reflection on the art of the story, as well as fragments of a diary, sketches of fiction and literature of the greatest importance.