The collection “Triangular Life” is the fourth volume of the collected works of Yuri Polyakov. The book, in addition to a fascinating essay about the secrets of the writing craft, includes the famous novel “I Planned an Escape...”, which has long become a classic and is recognized as the best family novel in Russian literature in recent decades. This is not just a look at the world from the marital bed, it is a brilliantly written, deep, sometimes ironic saga about those “subtle, powerful connections” that connect the bodies and souls of people even when it seems to them that love has cooled down. Reading the novel “I was planning an escape...”, read at the right time, has saved more than one family from disintegration...