After a novel in two voices historically inspired ("ignored") Alice Ferney returns to his preferred analysis: the autopsy of a couple. Careful analysis (with the precision of an entomologist) and / or chronic disintegration of love, playing with prolepses giving the story its oracular structure: "The idyll that would span a quarter century gives attachments. .. "future scenario would begin" To understand the behavior of Serge, it is necessary to trace the origins (Vladimir and Nina's parents) and the title of the first part speaks for itself "son of Nina"; delivered a mother too young for marriage, locked too early in the role of mother; Serge wasnt "born of a woman built and strong, but dune girl starts" "With this dripping love silly adulation, Vladimir and Nina Korol had given their son a baby psychology throughout its life would see Serge in the vastness of the world that the satisfaction of his needs. He would call sen never. " Serge and Marianne were "predetermined by their parents," they seem to not be able to fight against the trends registered in them indelibly. We sometimes regret the systematization in the analysis ... yet! what happens (after being announced I) does not always correspond to expectations; the "invariants" may "vary" even one iota! Anyway, the reader was warned: the novel revives a tradition of the nineteenth (see the two authors cited highlight)