Over thirty short chapters, each of which has a theme based on the musings of some philosophers, writers and literary critics who have thought about it, Jacques Bouveresse raises a number of questions that attempts to answer.
What kind of knowledge that neither everyday nor science can transmit offers a novel? In what sense can one speak of the concept of truth in literature? What is the relationship between the form of a work and the knowledge that gives us? Can literature contribute to moral philosophy? And if so, do it with means of its own?

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"I am aware that what I say probably will not do more than try to sort some ideas that certainly most intelligent people have known for a long time. The only excuse I can offer is that, as Musil says, sometimes there are things known that the circumstances should be repeated, and even repeated often. "