Raffaello Baldini in "La Fondazione", the last in a series of dramatic monologues written for theater, emphasizes the gnoseological and metaliterary dimension of the text. The book is much more than a life story told by an odd man, it is a brilliant and ironic little encyclopedic treatise, an informal but effective philosophical investigation on our relationship with the things, on how we use them, think of them and live together with them.