Aristides Subicz, a screenwriter, filmmaker, dandy and memorable Central European with aspirations to become a writer, receives from a famous literary agent the commission to tell the synopsis of his long-planned novel "in three sentences." Nineteen years has been accumulating Subicz material for that work, which, in its fits, must become the masterpiece of the second half of the twentieth century, the novel of a legitimate contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The quotation with the literary agent becomes a process of unreasonable "evacuation" of all that "compelling" material accumulated over the years: notes, bookmarks, flashes of memory, chapters started and never finished, invoices, cards With a history behind, luxurious brands of wine or clothes, reminiscent of war, of wars, of a licentious life in the midst of horror, childish or adolescent prints, caricatured and grotesque sketches drawn in the courtroom of the International Tribunal Of Nuremberg ... Everything serves to Subicz to deploy before the possible publisher the story of his novel and, therefore, that of his life, in a flow of stories that are only to be counted to create the inextricable collage of a "Identity", a literary identity that is only feasible through the murder of each one of our alter egos ... Gregor von Rezzori achieves with this, his top work, the creation Of a modern Decameron in a rabid, casual and perverse copulation with that Divine Comedy of vanities that has been the literature of the twentieth century and its still current concept of literary genius. Dismantling, parody, solemnity, reflection and the virtuous use of the whole catalog of narrative techniques inherited from the tradition let us glimpse in this novel the still underrated talent of one of the most innovative German-speaking writers of the second half of the last century.