Oneness and Otherness in Florin Manolescu's Romanian-German Diary – Cu ochii pe mine / Watching myself

Florin Manolescu's diary published in 2010, Cu ochii pe mine / Watching myself, is representative for the post -totalitarian Eastern traveler to the West as it can be defined as a memoir writing coping with the great totalitarian History and its autobiographical fictionalization instrumented by the uprooted authorial mask. The conflictive relationship between oneness and otherness lies at the core of the diarist narrative, focusing now on identity re-negotiation as the Romanian writer experiences the Western adventure during his stay in Germany.