Simone de Beauvoir is a writer, philosopher, “high priestess” of existentialism, companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, her books and especially the famous essay “The Second Sex” left their mark on an entire era. “All men are mortal,” so called in In her 1946 novel, Simone de Beauvoir tried to solve the riddle of life and death. Long before the successes of cryobiology and cloning, the ideas of multi-world immortality, before the appearance of the film legion of undying Highlanders, she endows the hero of her novel with immortality - real and irrefutable. The curse of aging turns into a curse of eternal youth for him. But is Duke Fosca happy as he wanders across continents and centuries? Or is he doomed to be bored forever, repeating: “Will the taste of my life never change?”