Taking as a starting point the constructivist concept of self-referentiality, we will attempt to examine the problem of reflexivity that holds a particularly important position in modern literature.

In other words, the subject of this essay is to understand what a form of literature can consist of, which takes itself as its object. It is a form of literature that reflects on the possible conditions of its creation, broadly negotiating the conditions under which a fictional text is composed, while simultaneously questioning the very foundations of the "contract" that governs the relationship between work and reader.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]