"Why Émilie Vignou remained a virgin until the night she met Irimia C. Irimia, that's something I could not explain exactly. Maybe it was laziness or lack of imagination. Everything should have been against that late chastity. As if it were a peculiar sentimental chronicle, Mujeres (1933), the first novel by the great Mihail Sebastian, recounts the adventures starring -or witnessed- by a young doctor in four stages different from his life. Stories of conquests and separations, of reunions and games, that leave in the reader the metallic and wild taste of the wrong passions, and the certainty that love is something fickle, messy and bittersweet that has nothing to do with fate. Distracted or submissive, temperamental or bourgeois, the women who mark the life of the young doctor Stefan Valeriu are undoubtedly unforgettable.
