O sută de ani de zile la Porțile Orientului by Ioan Groşan is a parodic historical novel with a pictorial, playful and ironic narrative speech. Unwilling to humor – from the absurd, to the situational and to the language one, the novel (as any postmodernist writing) contains a lot of literary allusions, intertextual quotations, word games, that is why reading it becomes a funny adventure, in which the reader, as a detective, identifies known fragments and expressions, "recycled" by the author and included in the canvas of narration by the technique of collage. Intertextual references are inserted into the text without discourse markers (quotation marks or bibliographic references). The work will highlight a series of literary allusions and intertextual quotations, which produce ludic and ironic effects that involve the exercise of parodic competence and performance by both the author and the lecturer.