Prose thinks, it is capable of dynamiting certainties and invoking new, unexpected worlds. The seven critical essays in this book navigate around this postulate, attacking the docile and comfortable word to restore the notion that literature is, above all, an event. A way of living. Through textual fragments that trace constellations, Nicolás Cabral proposes a way of reading where fictional prose is a space that contrasts power with experimentation and possibility. Whether under the skin of survivors (the Shoá or the Gulag), the dislocations of time and space or writing as a rebellious discovery against the tyranny of production and information, among many other spheres that converge in contemporary narrative, Formas de habitar is the precocious testament of a thinker to whom nothing is alien. To summon the string of authors that parade through this book would be, above all, useless. This is its greatest achievement: the kilometres of library travelled are not presented as an entity of immobile knowledge but as a terrain open to thought. Not a cartography but a canvas, not a building but a garden.