If the artist limits himself, as many have said, to giving new forms to old ideas, it must be concluded that he individualizes himself in the expression. There is some truth in the assertion of many writers that a narrative boils down to the action arc, with everything else being secondary. However, it should be noted that the plot gives us a mostly vague view of the artist, who cannot be summarized in a diagram. To see him, to know him, to identify him, we need to see how he expresses himself, not what is being expressed. We can see this even in an emblematic example like Dostoevsky, whose works have such well-defined dramatic arcs that Nabokov called him a playwright. Dostoevsky reveals himself, rather, in the long, troubled, intense and tumultuous periods. There is no need to go on.