Roland Topor's exuberant collection of vows of love shows that love must not be merely an inert action. He acted diligently -- though ironically -- as a detective in matters of love, finding that the verbal creations of love were hard to provoke, ultimately fleeting, and often even socially unacceptable. Working on this "humanistic" collection throughout his life, he succeeded in localising central themes, formulating categories and tracing a long tradition.The erotic poetic oeuvre, which is indebted to the genius of chance, is accompanied by Roland Topor's drawings.
