Stefan contacts lawyers who says he is sure to win. Uncle Naé challenges the interpretation of the will. To everyone’s surprise, he describes Stefan as his favourite nephew in his will and seems to leave more than he does to the others. This is foolish given that Také has no other heirs and the family is always worried that, on a whim, he may leave his money to charity. Stefan, for the second time in the book, speaks out of turn and attacks his uncle. At a lunch given by Také, attended by the family, Také is critical of Corneliu, his younger brother and Stefan’s father. Také, fifteen years older than his brother, is a very rich miser. Naé is a liberal and at times outspoken member of parliament. His mother lives with her daughters till they marry and move away. Stefan’s father – a university professor who published a liberal magazine and was always broke – has died. Without telling their families, they married. Stefan had met a woman at university and they fell in love. We now go back in time, to find out what prompted this behaviour. When a fellow officer comes out both to reproach him and to console him, he threatens to desert in order to go home. He then launches into a tirade against his commanding officer, which is completely contrary to rules, and storms out. However, Stefan takes this opportunity to ask for leave, for a second time.
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One of the key issues is a trial taking place, where a man is accused of murder, after killing his wife for infidelity. In the officers’ (rudimentary) mess, there is a lot of gossip. He adds that the training is like the games they played as children. He is transferred to the frontier where there is more trench-building, which attracts the same comment from our hero. He comments that the trenches are like the ones they built as children when playing soldier games. He first serves in the Prahova Valley, where the Romanians are building trenches. They were not ready for war, as we shall see. Finally the Allies gave the Romanians an ultimatum and they agreed. The Romanians hesitated about joining the Allies but the Allies wanted them to do so, to deny Germany oil and to cut off communications between Germany and Turkey. When the king died, his successor was pro-Allies. Initially, the king had been pro-German while the political elite pro-Allies. Romania remained neutral during the first two years of World War I but came in on the side of the Allies in 1916. Home » Romania » Camil Petrescu » Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război Camil Petrescu: Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război
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