In the shadow of the literary life’s egos, we find the marks of postmodern „culture uproar” (B. Ch. Han). However, in this „fatality” we distinguish and a lot of inertia and imitation, much gregarious spirit and snobbery. The impulses of the critics’ return to normality had first to overcome a fierce mythology of the writer – an exceptional figure from the years of national awakening. The postmodern terribleness of critical interventions aimed precisely this literary and social simulacrum. Then the anthology „Portret de grup” tries to impose a literary image opposed to the dominant traditionalist model of 60’s source – a model modified through the imitations’ ruination and the following degradation in a sententiouspathetic and sweetish-rustic model. Hence the insistence on the aesthetic criterion. Opposite to moralizing, false patriotic source, and to that primary kalokagathia, which represents the foundation of an important viable part of literature of resistance of Bessarabia, the aesthetic offensive (with a strong aestheticist emanation) shows some serious cracks and is lost in inconsequences of attitude and inconsistency of method. Through the abusive identification of the lyricoid traditionalism with the poetry of Grigore Vieru, we insist espe cially on the „lack of value” and even on the malefic, paralysing influence of the author of „Albinuţa” on the native literary process. It is notable that any discussion on the literary tradition ends invariably with another fiery „separation of Vieru”. It is remarkable and a feedback, many authors full of velleities who remained of an elementary, lapsed poetic expression, cavil about the image of Grigore Vieru. There is something concerning the drama of our aesthetic taste, corrupted by a literary restrictive policy over several decades, a taste unable to face the challenges of new artistic models and to distinguish the real value from the past „rubbles”. We see how simulacra of a haunting past and those of a present of criteria’s disconcert become bitter instead of emulation and some successive series of exemplary creations of paradigm.