The core of this monograph lies in the elaboration of the concept of writing (écriture) that is played out in the analysis of various generic types (autobiography, novel, crime story, literary criticism, investigative journalism. The argument consists of a series of casuistries united through an interpretive perspective.
The conduct of this perspective is to decompose suggestiveness and impenetrability of belletristic elements that subjugate the reader through false memory qua memory of literature.