Love and death are the eternal theme of art: Tristan and Isolde, Ginevra and Lancelot, Othello and Desdemona... Louis Aragon (1897–1982), a classic of French literature, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, boldly adds his own: Ingeborg and Antoine. The artistic fabric of the novel is interspersed with lyrical and ironic short stories; heartfelt confession gives way to philosophical reflections. In the crowd of characters, the reader recognizes the heroes of world and, above all, Aragon’s beloved Russian literature. But the main character of “Death in Seriousness” is the author himself, who called his novel “a symphony of mirrors, a gallery of the artist’s self-portraits from different angles.”