In 1961 Bob Dylan arrived in New York and settled in Greenwich Village ready to meet Woody Guthrie, who at that time was the singer-songwriter he was trying to emulate. Young Dylan makes a living playing in different venues while living a great love story and developing as an author. That entry into the world of professional music, which culminated in 1962 with his first record contract, is the background of 'Chronicles I', a book that collects impressions, experiences and reflections, which presents the first Bob Dylan as a creator animated by infinite restlessness. If we knew Dylan's quality as a poet, 'Chronicles I' reveals to us an extraordinary narrator, capable of alternating memory, elegiac and the most scathing and incisive observations.