This article draws up a general review of the critical evaluations referred to the novel Viata si moartea nefericitului Filimon sau anevoioasa cale a cunoasterii de sine by Vladimir Besleaga. The main problem lies in the ineffective critics’ attempts to access the hermeneutical world of this modernist novel with mostly traditional literary tools, i.e. from a monological point of view. The author proves that a more appropriate pattern of approaching such a complex narrativity can be enabled only by a dialogical perspective.