Here is a self-help guide for smart people. We invite you to escape to an exotic climate that encourages growth.

In a selective collection of great writers, a celebration for the mind is woven. Essays, an elusive and delicate genre that is neither a literary text nor an essay, have the ability to quench a hidden thirst. Their function is to stimulate and then immediately disappear. We will feel their implications and perhaps implement them in the routine of the days to come.

Virginia Woolf with a chilling essay about enemy planes circling overhead every night; Fabio Morabito provokes us to ask the unknown questions; George Orwell gives financial advice for times of war; Roberto Marino caresses us back to childhood, when time is a miraculous organ that stretches infinitely; Virchinia Higa watches the guests who come to stay at her house; Jean-Luc Nancy tells his grandson what passion is; Byung-chul Han rebels against the technology that bites us, and more, and more.

Reading this book seeks to be intimate, embracing. We hope that during the reading, the reader will occasionally look up from the book, to feel the rare feeling that only an excellent text can inspire, which is a life-desiring alertness.