The present study aims to analyze Andrei Pleşu's books, books that summarize an unmistakable spiritual vocation, made up of the temptation of the fragmentary and the spirit of finesse and with an impeccable analytical approach. The essayist's discourse can be defined rather by ambivalence and antinomies, because in the substance of such a discourse is found the sober rigor and suppleness, the accuracy and voluptuousness of a "love" writing, irretrievably attached to its object, we find the resources of a subtle, "art" but also the mechanisms of a “fascinating art”, which reveals the hidden availabilities of the being, but also the concreteness of the relief of the real world, with its flagrant sinuosities, with the halo of imaginary and referentiality in the sphere of the work of art. Andrei Pleşu exposes in his essays the capacity to perceive, beyond the surfaces of things, the ultimate realities, the strong essences that highlight their ultimate nature, their unalterable identity.