Protean and polymorphic personality – poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and translator – Aureliu Busuioc, author of a vast and complex, bookish and intellectualized work is not an easy writer at all. It was said of him that he came to literature endowed with a rich culture and that he imposed himself on the public attention through works of a certain linguistic and, more broadly, stylistic brilliance. Especially in the case of his twelve successful novels, the reading ritual involves a participatory attitude of the reader, forced to apply, often, a particular grid of reception and interpretation. This is what we intend to highlight in this essay…