''Money, all sorts of intrigues, family troubles, the impossibility of love, the inevitability of death." If a person does not have any special problems, he must create them for himself. This could be the slogan of Frederick Beigbeder, a dandy and snob, a professional advertiser, an ardent supporter of the communists , a writer. In addition, he is one of those five hundred chosen ones, without whom the nightlife of Paris is unthinkable. “Stories on Ecstasy” paint a picture of a society doomed (in the author’s opinion) to destruction, which will not prevent this society from existing (as everyone believes). same author) happily ever after. Beigbeder especially values his fame as the “literary discoverer” of MDMA, or “ecstasy,” which occupies a place of honor in his book - right down to the title.