Transylvania · 1922 · citedThe Forest of the Hanged
Liviu Rebreanu
Apostol Bologa, a Romanian officer in the Austro-Hungarian army of the First World War, sits on the court-martial that hangs a Czech deserter, and is then ordered to the Transylvanian front to fight against his fellow Romanians, until conscience and divided loyalty tear him apart. Rebreanu sets it between the far Galician front where the hangings begin and Bologa's Transylvanian homeland: his home village near Năsăud, the border front against Romania, and the forest where he too will hang.
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