Luis Britto García nos ofrece en este libro, que es varios libros, una obra que puede ser leída de múltiples maneras: ars poética, panorama de la literatura venezolana, análisis de estrategias narrativas, estudios de autores clásicos, historias de las culturas.
Luis Britto García is a Venezuelan writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction has been recognised twice with the Casa de Las Américas Prize, for his works Rajatabla (1970) and Abrapalabra (1979). In 2002 he was winner of Venezuela's National Prize for Literature, given as a lifetime achievement award. In 2005 he was recognized with the Ezequiel Martínez Estrada honorary award of Casa de Las Américas.