The famous French writer and art scholar reflects on the influence that their lovers had on the lives and works of famous artists. The book has ten chapters - ten stories of world-famous love couples. Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel; Edvard Munch and Tulla Larsen; Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka; Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar; Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hebuterne; Salvador Dali and Gala; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Consuelo; Man Ray and Lee Miller; Balthus and Setsuko Ideta; Marguerite Duras and Jan Andrea. Brilliant artists created immortal works, and wonderful women shared their fate in poverty and wealth, in joy and sorrow, loved, were jealous, suffered and parted, dooming themselves to loneliness. This book is the story of complex relationships between people who tried to find a balance between creative solitude and the desire to be close to someone who, with the power of his love and the richness of his personality, inspires the creation of great works of art.