Abstract: (Crisis, Withdrawal, and Survival: On Addiction in the Novels of Cristian Fulaș) This paper analyses the representations of addiction in Cristian Fulaș’s novels Fâșii de rușine (2015, EN: Strips of Shame) and După plâns (2016, EN: After Crying), exploring dependency as an extreme form of individual crisis, but also as the illusion of a redemptive escapism. The two novels portray addiction not only as a symptom but, more subtly, as a structural principle of narration: a style often fragmented, almost hypoxic, that mimics the erratic rhythm of withdrawal – a tempo that formally conveys the tensions and volutes of the addict's consciousness. Between lucidity and disintegration, the characters' downward spirals evoke everything from peratology (as seen by O. Nimigean) to inferno (as read by Carmen Mușat). We examine to what extent the dismantling of inner states reaches verisimilitude or whether Fulaș's stylistic choices verge on mannerism, within an autobiographical openness that is both deliberately assumed and aesthetically transformed. These novels map out the fractures of selfhood, placing at their core the vulnerability of a human being attempting to survive loneliness.