Literature and history have shown that it is enough to focus on a character to know the transit of a people, of a country, during a certain period. The biography of a writer of the stature of Xavier Villaurrutia. His work is still alive, and readers and authors return to it recurrently in search of clues. His documentary legacy, under the protection of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature, will allow scholars of literature to unravel the hidden knots of that change of thought and delve into Villaurrutia's keys.

The Xavier Villaurrutia Fund is one of the richest, most diverse and varied personal archives belonging to a writer under the tutelage of the State, for Mexicans. This exhibition is a symbolic sample of the almost six thousand documents that make up this valuable archive. The set situates the dimension of the writer's literary work and illustrates his work as a poet, critic, essayist and playwright. It synthesizes in images part of his personal and literary biography.

The documentation housed in the Xavier Villaurrutia Fund is of various types: manuscripts, typewritten originals, letters, play and recital programs, playbills, scripts, translations, invitations, telegrams, invoices, contracts, notarial records, minutes, receipts, postcards and objects. The period of the documents covers the decades from 1920 to 1950.

The selection of photographs presented in the exhibition Xavier Villaurrutia, images of a life, is a selection of images that show different moments of the writer's life.