One man, a literary genius named Mario Cerro, meets with himself to perform graphological exercises. His desire is to get out of the existential stagnation he is in. He thinks, and so he is advised, that if he focuses on an arbitrary goal – improving his handwriting – he will regain his vitality. However, during these exercises, writing and the mind are diverted to the writer’s daily life. A different kind of literature emerges between the cracks of writing. The letters compose words, the words pile up into sentences. Little by little, the empty speech outlines a personal epic, the drama of the modern subject, bored, trapped between walls and people, and trying to delve into its interior in search of meaning for life. This book positioned Mario Cerro as one of the most important Latin American writers of the last decades of the twentieth century. Its honesty, its deceptive simplicity, the prose that mediates the self and puts it on display, its existentialism, have made this book a must-read among readers of Spanish-language literature.