The article is an overview of the literary year 2013, of its strong points and failures, advancing on the path of searching for answers to a few questions: 1. whether among the multitude of books written last year we can find something that is clearly a literary theme, an artistic promise of perspective, an interesting trend; 2. What are the things (older or newer) that pull (or continue to pull) the Romanian literature of Bessarabia towards the failures and provincialism in the books that have distinctive strong points. What can be noticed immediately is obviously a considerable share of publications in the context of criticism and literary history in 2013, and of cultorology essay and memoirs publicistics.