This book addresses two of the great themes of literature (and of existence): desire and the hidden. In The Fifth Postulate Luigi Amara exhibits his talents as a narrator by imagining a dialogue between two parallel lines that maintain a loving relationship that It raises the complex dialectic that supports this prospect: desire and impossibility, encounters and disagreements, infatuations and opprobriums, seduction and rejection, words and silences. Schopenhauer said that human beings are like porcupines: if we are too far from each other, we can freeze, if we get too close we get spined This scholastic maxim is materialized in the story of Amara that seems to end the condemnation of love in the distance, close but insurmountable, that delineates the territory of our desire.

Amara says in Folds: «The unfolded does not completely cancel or erase the fold. There is always a mark at the site of the fold, a true indelible scar, at the same time border and line of memory ». In this essay the author returns to a subject that he has dealt with in other books: the hidden face of reality, the mystery that lies beyond contingent forms (with the stagnant grammar of the everyday, the normal).

Both texts are arranged in a format that claims the materiality of the book as a source of bodily action (and therefore political) and aspire to rescue overlooked dimensions in a world that increasingly places the book more perfidiously as an instrument of marketing or as a disposable consumer good, such as intimacy, play, and ultimately the enjoyment of the act of reading.