Florian Zeller is twenty-four years old, he teaches literature and writes for fashion magazines. His first novel, “Artificial Snow” (2001), received the Hachette Foundation Prize. The novel “Casual Relationships” is the second book of the young author, in which he masterfully depicts the history of the relationship between two young people. The hero is twenty-nine years old, he is a lawyer and is popular with women. The heroine is a complex young elementary school teacher. Having united, by the will of feelings, seemingly absolutely incompatible characters, the author, with impeccable psychological accuracy, dissects two main, radically different approaches to life, two types of loneliness - self-sufficient male and suffering female. The original construction of the novel, its philosophical and psychological content, combined with the elegance of the language, makes The novel is a worthy example of a modern “roman d'amore”. Written with taste and knowledge, it is a pleasure to read. Moreover, it is extremely educational. “You can feel something of Kundera in it and hear echoes of Houellebecq” (Le Figaro Litteraire).