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This book is not a more prescriptive guide on how to set the plot, develop the characters, build empathy. No rules are given here, nor are shortcuts promised to writing well. Vanni Santoni is very honest with the reader, or rather with the aspiring writer to whom this sharp and affectionate pamphlet is addressed: they are not taught to write. And 'the reason is one, simple and peremptory: the infinite immensity of the possibilities of a narrative text implies that infinite things can be written in infinite ways'. There are no absolute rules. The great literature is not a sequence of movements that occur by default to obtain an effect, it is not a cold algorithm, but a field of possibilities, tensions and even contradictions.