  We suggest a multifragmentation scenario in which fragments are produced at
an early, high temperature and high density, stage of the reaction. In this
scenario, self-bound clusters of particles in the hot and dense fluid are the
precursors of the observed fragments. This solves a number of recurrent
problems concerning the kinetic energies and the temperature of the fragments,
encountered with the standard low density fragmentation picture. The
possibility to recover the initial thermodynamic parameters from the inspection
of the asymptotic fragment size and kinetic energy distributions is discussed.
