«Paradox of love» — a new essay of the well-known French writer Pascal Brukner. A theme which Brukner affects this time, leaning against experience of his generation, hardly can leave someone indifferent. What has changed, what remains invariable in love psychology of the present-day person? Sexual revolution, declarations of “free love”: how sociocultural shifts of last third of XX-th century have affected the world of feelings, relations and values? Whether freedom in love is achievable?

Continuing tradition of the French essayistics, the author in his own reflections is both serious, and ironic, he shines with erudition, making digressions to history and history of literature, and at the same time live and emotionally talks to the reader.