زیر نظر کتاب میں ایسے تخلیق کاروں کے افکار سے بحث کی گئی ہے جن کی تحریریں ناول اور افسانے کے فن کو سمجھنے میں مدد دیتی ہیں۔ کتاب میں بارہ تخلیق کار ناقدین پر تیرہ مضامین شامل ہیں ۔ ان تمام مضامین میں تین باتیں قابل توجہ ہیں۔ ایک تو یہ کہ ان سے اردو کی فکشن تنقید کے ارتقا کی تاریخ مرتب ہوتی ہے، دوسرے ان سے فکشن کے اصول و نظریات اور مباحث کا تعین ہوتا ہے اور تیسرے یہ کہ ان سے تخلیق کاروں کی تنقیدی صلاحیتوں کا اندازہ بھی ہوتا ہے کہ وہ فن کو کیا سمجھتے تھے اور اسے کیسے دیکھ اور برت رہے تھے۔ ان تخلیق کاروں کی تصویریں ٹائیٹل پیج پر دیکھ کر انوکھے پن کا احساس ہوتا ہے ۔ یہ دس تصویریں ہیں اگر دو اور دستیاب ہوجاتیں تو یہ خانہ بھی مکمل ہو جاتا۔

Abu Bakr Abbad was born on December 15, 1968, in Pura Nodiha, a small village seven kilometers east of Darbhanga, Bihar. His grandfather Shamsuddin was a line inspector in the Indian Railways, his uncle Maulana Abdul Rahman was the fifth Amir-Sharif of Shariah Emirate of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand, and his father Maulana Mufti Muhammad Zafiruddin was the Grand Mufti of Daarul-Uloom, Deoband.

Abu Bakr Abbad’s early education took off in Deoband according to Baghdadi principles. After completing his religious education, he entered Aligarh Muslim University to acquire contemporary education. From there he obtained BA, MA, M.Phil and Obtained Ph.D. degrees and served as a lecturer in the Department of Urdu for one and a half years. In 2002, he was appointed to the Department of Urdu at Delhi University, and is still associated with the same. Abu Bakr also holds the distinction of being taught by some of the finest religious and academic scholars of his time like Hazrat Maulana Minnatullah Rahmani, Hazrat Maulana Muhammad Wali Rahmani, Maulana Syed Arshad Madani, Maulana Abdul Khaliq Madrasi, Prof. Qazi Afzal Hussain, Prof. Abul Kalam Qasmi, Prof. Shehryar, and Prof. Noorul Hassan Naqvi.

Originally, Abu Bakr started by writing on religious and reformist subjects, and entered the preserve of Urdu literature by writing short stories which were published during his time as a student in magazines such as ‘Alfaz’, Aligarh, and ‘Filmi Sitare’, Delhi. Under the tutelage of noted post-modernist critic Professor Qazi Afzal Hussain, he developed a penchant for criticism and wrote pivotal critiques in illustrious literary journals like ‘Shab Khun’, ‘Aaj-Kal’, ‘Sab Ras’, ‘Aiwan-e-Urdu’, and ‘Kitab-Numa’. Notable books published by him include, ‘Mumtaz Shirin: Naqid, Kahani-Kaar’, ‘Fiction Ki Talash Mein’, and ‘Tanqid Se Pare’, which is his critique on poetry. Though Abu Bakr hasn’t been writing poetry for a long time, still he has penned some important Nazms. History, politics, nature, psychology and human issues are his go-to themes. His poetry encompasses beautiful narration, abounding in metaphors and allusions, with fluid lyricism.

Important journals like ‘Sab-Ras', Hyderabad,' Sadaf’, Patna, 'Kitab-Numa', Delhi, 'Aiwan-e-Urdu', Delhi, 'Naya Waraq', Mumbai, 'Urdu Channel', Mumbai, 'Zaban-o-Adab', Patna, 'Darbhanga Times’, Darbhanga, and 'Jahan-e-Urdu’, Darbhanga, regularly see his works published in them.