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This work can be read as a novel or a collection of short stories. The independent narratives include characters that are fictionalized authors (like the Brazilian Raduan Nassar and the American Wallace Stevens, among many others), and humble people in general (like the hopeful peasant migrant who finds soot and corpses in the big city). There is no specific continuity among the stories, other than the almost visible literary wire that gathers them all as a search, from the part of a writer, for the uncommon, the bizarre and, ultimately, the mission that an author may possibly have in life.