About the book: 2017 / Before you is the best of Maurois’ creative heritage. Works that embodied all the charm of his ironic talent for comprehending human psychology. Stories from different years, but above all - the brilliant “Letters to a Stranger”. Paradoxical, full of subtle humor and lyricism, they are still considered a kind of “standard of the genre” and still raise many questions. Did the mysterious Stranger exist, to whom Maurois gave advice? worthy of Laclau and Ovid? Perhaps this is not so important?…