Abstract
This present article aims to explore the thematic grounds in Adrian Dinu Rachieru’s book. He examines authors and books, managing to achieve a critic within the proximity of the social dimension and, implicitly, in the context’s proximity. Through his work, Adrian Dinu Rachieru manages to configure an ample perspective on the contemporary Romanian literature, the critic being individualised through a well-defined documentation, an exceptional capacity of using the bibliographic resources, but also through an amazing dexterity in dealing with certain literary concepts. By means of his book, the author brings to the reader’s attention five types of cannon, which he defines and illustrates by analysing a series of representative writers. The critic’s books are also distinguished through the sociological and historical optics of the problems he highlights.