"I can only write the novel only possible for me," says Köves, the perplexed protagonist of this book. Ecstatic novel, initiation, in which a subtle patina of melancholy humor runs from end to end action that unfolds like a game of Russian dolls, drawing a landscape of Kafkaesque tone in which reality and fiction intertwine in a character who lives in dense leaden dictatorial atmosphere of Stalinism, the experience of writing against the grain. A comedy that swings between the delusional and the absurd, the reader will find the central part of the trilogy dedicated to the "absence of destiny", which began with the novel Fateless (1975) and culminated with Kaddish for a Child not born (1990), both published by the same publisher.