Unforgivable, Cristina Campo, like Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Marianne Moore or Gottfried Benn, because her passion is perfection: «The passion for perfection comes late. Or, rather, it manifests itself late as conscious passion. ' These are the first sentences of the text "The Unforgivables" that gives the title to this book, in which her writings on fables, on authors in whom she recognizes herself and whose reading reaches the very depths of her being to show them, were gathered. without masks, in his most absolute nudity, as William Carlos Williams confessed to him intimidated.

Cristina Campo is an exceptional reader of the Countess of Ségur, of The Thousand and One Nights, Marcel Proust, John Donne, Antón Chejov, Jorge Luis Borges and others; they all parade through these pages like the threads of a fabric make up the figure, like the carpet woven to the sound of the flute, the subject of one of the most exquisite essays in this book for its ability to understand the symbol and for its ability to resurrect continents already lost. In Cristina Campo's writing, the dead and extinct comes to life, and the invisible acquires visibility. Her aristocratic spirit and her radical thinking made the discovery of Simone Weil an event. In the last years of her short life, she experienced the awakening of the inner senses with the Orthodox liturgy practiced in the Russicum in Rome, and this is what the essays that conclude the book deal with.