

Reality is explored by an image-catching eye, by exquisite hearing, the process of text delivery comprising random facts (news heard on the radio, read in newspapers, texts which come back in memory etc.). Daily life encompasses different syncopes, but the interval does not impinge on the text, the break making the connections between objects and beings even more obvious. The second person narrative is recurrent, which involves both distance taking and intimacy with the story substance. The text also means reflection on the text, that is why each prose reveals a working "hypothesis", necessary to the reading. Discussing the phrase "textual engineering", Gheorghe Crǎciun identifies the implications of textuation and of the unveiling of the procedures within the text. These volumes are marked by experiments, the author being one of the most gifted prose writers of the last decades of the last century. Starting from the second volume (Efectul de ecou controlat/ The Effect of Controlled Echo, 1981) and especially from Amendament la instinctul proprietǎţii/ Amendment to the Ownership Instinct (1983), it becomes obvious what "textual engineering", as the young writer calls the writing, means from his perspective. 1950) from the very first volume (Aventuri intr-o curte interioarǎ/ Adventures in an Inner Yard, 1979).

The textualist practice characterizes Mircea Nedelciu's prose (n. In his short prose fiction, Mircea Ndelciu sets the pace as regards the search for novel resources, at a moment when literary experiments were not positively regarded by the censorship of the time. The author of the article looks into the moment of Mircea Nedelciu' affirmation, undoubtedly one of the most important leaders of the '80 generation.
