Choosing whom we love, loving whoever we want seems like an obvious right today. However, to achieve this, an entire revolution of feelings was required, a process that began in the 18th century.

This freedom, this right that we have gained after much struggle, comes at a cost. How can the love that unites us be combined with the freedom that separates us? Pascal Bruckner narrates, through the transformations of marriage and eroticism, the resistance of feelings to any rule.

Men and women have progressed, but love has not: this is the good news of the 21st century. Pascal Bruckner describes with clarity and elegance the paradoxes of our emotional life. (Bernard Pivot, Le Journal du Dimanche)

We thought we had solved all the problems of love and that we had rid ourselves of it. Yet, forty years after May '68, Pascal Bruckner deciphers its paradoxes. (Elisabeth Levy, Le Point)