Once the French writer Frédéric Beigbeder (b. 1965) - well known in Bulgaria for his novels, novellas and essay collections, almost all of them published by Colibri (2010-2021) - happened to see in the window of a gallery a picture that caught his attention: an armchair with green and white striped upholstery on the porch of a cabin, placed in front of a desk with an inkwell and quill against the background of an exotic beach. He buys the painting, then suddenly remembers: it's the Arcachon Basin with Cap Ferret, where his friend Benoît Bartherotte lives. This memory takes him back in time and Beigbeder sits down to write. Like waves, one phrase after another rushes into his mind and spills onto the pages in reflections on the writer's work, on the tireless pursuit of the creative impulse, as fleeting as desire. Thus the past returns to become a protective barrier against the present…