At a mountain resort, a refined intellectual runs into his former pupil, now a beautiful woman half his age. As the nature of their rekindled relationship changes, he documents with perverse lucidity his attempt to resist falling in love with her.Adela is a fin de siècle novel written by Garabet Ibrăileanu, one of Romania's most important literary critics. The author spent a decade refining and circulating the work among his literary friends, finally publishing it a year before his death (1933). It received the National Novel Award that same year.A sharp analysis of male prudeness and idealism.--George Calinescu, criticOne of the most beautiful and enduring specimens of the Romanian analytical novel.--Eugenia Tudor-Anton, writerA painful, full of doubts midlife crisis of an overcomplicated man. Courageous book for its time, deprecated (but nevertheless delightful) by today's standards.--George Cocu, reviewerA model of psychological literature imbued with genuine poetry.--Eugen Lovinescu, critic