"Remember" is a fantasy novella set in Berlin, depicting dramatic events in the life of dandy Aubrey de Vere. Perpessicius argued that the main protagonist was "taken, apparently, from a short story by Oscar Wilde", while others noted a direct reference to the 19th century writer Aubrey de Vere, an indirect one to Poe's "Lenore" (the lyric: "And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?- weep now or nevermore!"), or a partial anagram of the name "Barbey d'Aurevilly". The mysterious events standing at the center of the writing have been interpreted by several critics as an allusion to de Vere's homosexuality. Probably taking place in 1907, it contrasts Caragiale's other, more tenebrous, writings of its kind—one of its main traits is the writer's nostalgia towards the German capital, which serves to give the story an atmospheric rather than narrative quality. Its depiction of hallucinatory visions probably owes inspiration to Gérard de Nerval, while, according to historian Sorin Antohi, the main character is reminiscent of Joris-Karl Huysmans' Des Esseintes ("see À rebours"). Lovinescu praises the story for "the gravity of its tone, [...] the cadence of its sumptuous, cultured and noble style." George Călinescu, who referred to the narrative as "a pastiche", and to Berlin as portrayed in Caragiale's story as "a Berlin-Sodom", concluded that the text allowed readers to form "the direct sensation" of Bucharest as a "Balkan Sodom" to be discerned from the German landscape.