The novel captures the high-life atmosphere, conversations between lovers, inner contradictions, and the lyrical euphoria caused by life in the midst of nature.
Sasha and Matei are two beautiful souls that resemble the heroes of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy.
The most interesting characters in Duiliu Zamfirescu's prose are women, possessing a blend of sensuality and humanity, that is, of poetry and realism. The author has intuited the feminine soul in several memorable characters, portraying it delicately and passionately, in well-nuanced, easily grasped doses.
Zamfirescu's stylistic temperament reaches the forms of a well-measured classicism, full of clarity.
Love in the Countryside is a classic novel, with a rigorous and harmonious construction, reserved lyrical descriptions, and an economy of words.