For the first time in Russian - the latest work by the author of “The Winter's Tale”: a novel that has become a modern classic and was recently filmed (starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, Will Smith; in Russian distribution the film was called "Love Through Time") Paris in the Present Tense is an insightful look at life and its complexities through the cathartic lens of art and memory. So, meet Jules Lacour - cellist, composer, teacher at the Sorbonne, veteran of the Algerian war; his parents died just before the liberation of France from the fascist occupation, and he carried this trauma throughout his life. He always “fell in love strongly and with lightning speed, with women who are rightfully worthy of love and not deprived of it,” and even after the death of his wife, with whom he lived his whole life, he did not lose this habit. One day, his old friend, the world-famous philosopher Francois Ehrenstamm, suggested that Jules write an advertising jingle for the world's largest insurance company, Acorn, which promised a fabulous fee, and Jules accepted this challenge - there were no other ways to find money for the treatment of his grandson suffering from leukemia. there wasn’t... “‘Paris in the Present Tense’ is first and foremost a lyrical statement about love and loss, soaring to truly Joycean beauty” (The New York Times).