The volume gathers autobiographical essays, biographical sketches, travel impressions, and journalistic pieces that trace the author's early life, formative literary activities, arrest and exile, return to urban life, and subsequent creative phases. It contains travel notebooks reflecting on foreign impressions, cultural and critical essays, and selections from a recurring series presented as a writer's diary, alongside remarks on other authors and contemporary events. Personal memory alternates with public argument, exposing changing aesthetic and social concerns and documenting the practical struggles of publication and finances that shaped the later work.