«Este libro –nos dice Ernesto Sabato en su prólogo– está constituido por variaciones de un solo tema, tema que me ha obsesionado desde que escribo: ¿por qué, cómo y para qué se escriben ficciones?» El autor responde a ello en apuntes que «tienen algo de “diario de un escritor” y se parecen más que nada a ese tipo de consideraciones que los escritores han hecho siempre en sus confidencias y en sus cartas».

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Ernesto Sabato bared his soul in this work and exposed his most illuminating reflections on the art of writing.

"This book," Ernesto Sabato tells us in his prologue, "is made up of variations of a single theme, a theme that has obsessed me since I have been writing: Why, how and for what purpose are fictions written?" The author responds to this in notes that "have something of a 'writer's diary' and are more like that type of consideration that writers have always made in their confidences and in their letters".