The friendship between Alexandre Kojève and Leo Strauss dates back to the early 1930s. As their correspondence (1932-1965) shows, it primarily manifested as an intellectual engagement that occasionally bore public fruits, such as "On Tyranny" (1963). This volume brings together two texts on a different topic: the art of writing. On one hand, there is Alexandre Kojève's text "Emperor Julian and the Art of Writing," which was first published in English in 1964 in a festschrift for Leo Strauss. On the other hand, there is the essay from the honoree in 1941, to which Kojève explicitly refers: "Persecution and the Art of Writing." Thus, it concerns the relationship between exotericism and esotericism, what is said and what remains unspoken. And whether there is a specific writing technique, "a technique that...