What is love? Lust, whim, play, passion, all-encompassing and inscrutable? The works included in the book are united not only by a similar title and - as the reader has the right to assume - by a common theme. In them - in different ways, but with the same inexorability - the author refuses to choose between reality and fiction, decent and obscene, poetic and vulgar, the realities of earthly lust are closely intertwined with the symbolic surrealism of divine love, with the alluring and deceptive light of that distant star... Collection " "Transient Love" tells how a young man enters adulthood, how he becomes acquainted with carnal love, how he seeks another love, how every time love's yearning mockingly turns into a farce. In the novel "Absolute Love" the hero is sentenced to death for murder (real or imaginary?), awaiting execution, remembers his childhood and sees himself as a little Breton of the late 20th century and Christ according to the Gospel; the son of the carpenter Joseph and the immaculate Virgin, Mariam, and at the same time, the son of the notary Mr. Joseph and his lustful wife, the seductress Varia... Alfred Jarry (Jarry Alfred, 1873–1907) is a recognized classic of French literature, poet, prose writer, playwright, by the middle of the 20th century, he became a cult figure of the literary and theatrical avant-garde of Europe, the USA and Latin America. The author of the infamous cycle about King Ubu, to which almost all theatrical movements of the 20th century are traced - from Dada and surrealism to the theater of the absurd. The collection includes such works by Alfred Jarry as “Transient Love” and “Absolute Love.”