“Between little Adela and her ‘maestro’, the fortyish Emil Codrescu, was born more than the ordinary love between a child and a full-grown man. The seeds of subjugating passion and resigned worship are sowed, above parental love, and last until Adela’s teens, when the study trip abroad separates Emil Codrescu from his soul pupil. A few weeks’ epistolary pause puts an end to their correspondence. Adela gets married and divorces shortly after, and after a few years our heroes meet again in the summer, in the romantic setting of Balţăteşti. The novel is a chronicle of this month of vacation – July-August 189…, and in particular the journal of the innocent, growing, imperious, but constantly protracted love between the two.”

1946