Olesea Girlea’s book Myth and art fiction in literary work has the merit to make a survey of the most pressing problems of literary theory such as religious and artistic imagination. The author covers like Ariadne’s thread the difficult areas of research: the concept of literary fiction, the conflict between religious and artistic fantasy, the defining of distinctive features of the original and the literary myth, the investigation of the strategies of the myth’s deconsecration, the mythological configuration diagrams of an era. Olesea Girlea provides more differentiated understanding, sometimes unusual, of texts written by leading Romanian and foreign writers, thereby validating the critical potential of methods and their interpretative skills and insights.