Abstract
This article analyzes the problem of recovering personal and cultural identity of thecharacters in Vladimir Besleaga's novels Zbor frânt (Broken Flight) and Viața și moarteanefericitului Filimon (The Life and Death of the Unfortunate Filimon). The main role inthe journey of self-search belongs to the involuntary memory and intuition, which drive theprotagonists through a series of events, the ones from the bitter, disturbing past, to finallydiscovering the magical dimension of childhood, revealing mysteries about one's own splitup destiny. Memories and the anamnesis process represent, therefore, the divine act ofrestoring the primordial world, of uttering the being and resurrecting the mankurt to theconscious, free and full life. Beyond the hostile reality of the regime, both Isai and Filimonreveal unique experiences and feelings from the labyrinth of their own consciousness,which bring them closer to the essence of existence.