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"Baltagul" is a very interesting novel about Victoria's attempt to find Nichifor, her soul who did not returned home. I really liked Vitoria's attitude towards what it happened. She showed unwavering devotion because many women would not have the courage to go in search of her husband's body. I like that it was based on her intuition and instincts
and that he did not give up in spite of all the difficulties she faced on the way. I liked Gheorghita's way of initiation
when his father's disappearance puts him to the test and he matures joining his mother in search of the truth. I also liked the moment when Gheorghiă took revenge on his father
killing Bogza with the hatch with which his father was killed.

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The rest of the novel tells of her journey with Gheorghită to find what happened to her husband. We follow her journey with the Jewish merchant, David, who helps her. She questions everyone she meets and several saw him as he went on his way. Her discussions with the blacksmith, priests, a sheep dealer and even at a wedding give her further clues as to the fate of her husband. She shows herself to be an astute detective, pretending at one point that Nechifor owes her money rather than saying that he is her husband. The story is called The Hatchet as she gets a new one made for Gheorghită to take with him and, of course, this hatchet becomes key to the story. Vitoria gets her answer in the end. The story is apparently based on an old legend but Sadoveanu’s updating is very well told and the character of Vitoria very effective.

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Nechifor Lipan is a sheep farmer in Mağura Tarcăului in rural Romania. The setting is probably the early part of the twentieth century, as trains are mentioned.
He has gone to Dorna to fetch his son Gheorghită, who has spent the winter in the lowlands, and also to buy sedge, which they use to make shelters. His wife, Vitoria, is worried about him as he normally returns after twenty days have passed and forty days have now passed and there is no sign of him and no word from him.
Vitoria receives a letter from Gheorghită, who has not seen his father, saying that he needs money to pay the shepherds. Vitoria gets hints that something might have happened to him. An old woman who gives prophecies, for example, says that he has gone off to have a good time. Other people suggest that this is the case but Vitoria does not believe it to be so. Gheorghită returns home and accompanies his mother to Piatra to see the prefect.
On the way they stop at the monastery where Vitoria prays to St Ann, who has interceded for her before. When they get to Piatra, Vitoria is told that she must write a petition to get the authorities to investigate. She starts to do so and then realises that it would be a waste of money as she is now convinced that her husband is dead.

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The main characters are:
Vitoria Lipan - main character and representative figure of popular hero, meets the fundamental qualities of the simple man from the country, which includes the cult of truth and justice, observance of ancestral laws and data "she is not an individuality, but an exponent of the case" (George Călinescu). She is, therefore, a mythical character and a symbolic character for the Romanian peasant.

Gheorghiţă: - the son of Nechifor and Vitoria Lipan, who was at the beginning of the novel at the age of adolescence, walks, together with his mother, on a path of initiation towards his formation as a man, "from now on you must look like a man. another support and I need your arm ".

Minodora:-was older than Gheorghita, more pampered by her father. She is willing to marry and thinks of Professor Andrei's son.
She finally proves to be submissive and obedient and behaves according to the age and custom of the place. She must keep her order, as her mother warns and advises her.

Calistrat Bogza si Ilie Cutui: -They are the assassins of Nechifor Lipan, eager to get rich through dishonesty, like the two shepherds from Miorita. Their unmasking is one of the most powerful scenes in the novel and resembles the process of confrontation used by Shakespeare in Hamlet.

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Mihail Sadoveanu (November 5, 1880 – October 19, 1961)
was a Romanian novelist, short story writer, journalist and political figure, who twice served as acting head of state for the communist republic (1947–1948 and 1958). One of the most prolific Romanian-language writers, he is remembered mostly for his historical and adventure novels, as well as for his nature writing. An author whose career spanned five decades, Sadoveanu was an early associate of the traditionalist magazine Sămănătorul, before becoming known as a Realist writer and an adherent to the Poporanist current represented by Viața Românească journal.

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1905 Povestiri din razboi (Tales of War)
1910 Povestiri de seara (Evening Tales)
1912 Bordeenii si alte povestiri (The Mud-Hut Dwellers)
1928 Hanu-Ancutei (Ancuta’s Inn)
1929 Zodia Cancerului sau Vremea Ducăi-Vodă (Under the Sign of the Crab)
1930 Baltagul (The Hatchet)
1933 Creanga de aur (The Golden Bough)
1934 Viata lui Stefan cel Mare (The Life of Stephen the Great)
1949 Mitrea Cocor (Mitrea Cocor)
1956 Venea o moara pe Siret (The Mill That Came With The Floods)