Sóniechka

Sonia, an unattractive Jewish girl, is an unusual being who, either through a slight form of madness or through a kind of genius, "experiences such empathy with print that leads her to give fictional characters the same category than to people of flesh and blood". In Sverdlovsk, where he works in a library (where else?), he meets the painter Robert Víktorovich, "the happiest of the unfortunate", who adds numerous trips to Europe and several years of imprisonment in a labor camp behind him. Soviet. They do not take long to get married and years of conjugal happiness follow, crowned with the birth of their daughter, Tania. Suddenly, Soniechka's interest in the world of literature, of fiction, completely disappears, vanishes. Family, housework, "croquettes and compotes", in other words, real and everyday life, are now happily at the center of Soniechka's life. But that peaceful life will be cut short with the appearance on the scene of a friend of Tania, Yasia, a petite Polish "with skin as fine as a freshly laid egg" with whom Robert Víktorovich will fall in love. Soniechka, moved by her maternal instincts, offers Yasia, an orphan, to settle in her house, without suspecting that this seductive blonde will become Robert Viktorovich's last love, his model and muse... A love that at times will be an amazing love triangle.