The book is actually a kind of long lesson on love. Battie to partirde literature, if love lasted Finkielkraut, is a marvel. One can get bored in some reading time but the background is a rare beauty.
It's nice, lively, intelligent without being academic. It may be, indeed, that love, as says a future academician, shaving lasts more than three years ...
The pus beautiful analysis, for me, is the one on "The Princess of Cleves". The philosopher understands the time during which the protagonists evolve, the princess, the Duke of Nemours, the husband of the princess who dies of love for elle.Il gi