Gabriel Ferrater He said that the highest form of literature was poetry, but that literature does not rest on its peaks. I have always believed that the basis of all literature is the essay and the ability to think about ourselves, which is what literature is based on. One of the essays that has recently been most successful when it comes to making a portrait of what we are today is Without story, by the writer and psychoanalyst Lola López Mondéjar (1958). Forget about the techniques of mindfulness and immerse yourself in the exciting exercise of looking at yourself in the mirror of reality.