"Along with their life in literature, the records of great writers are in truth the history of their countries. They are like biographies or chronicles: you can look at your own reality, labeled with months and years. While reading them, you cannot help wondering how much you have fought, how you managed to survive such a lot of lies and truths ... But above all, the records of a great writer also aim at the future because time turns like a gigantic gyroscope and one is obliged to recognize the genuine and the great in this eternal whirl", the author says in his introduction.