Abstract: (A Crisis of Becoming, a Crisis of History. A Case Study: Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu's The Black Sun) The purpose of the paper is to illustrate the ways in which the relationship between the protagonist's evolution of identity, as well as the evolution of the historical paradigm determine both a crisis of becoming and a crisis of history in Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu's latest novel, The Black Sun. Beyond the search for the self and for the absent father figure, the character Gheorghe Ibrahim Abdallah is constructed in relation to both individual and collective memory of historical “rifts”, which directly influence the destiny and the path of the protagonist due to their consequences. Between extremist ideologies and adolescence in communist Romania, between real and alternative histories, identity crises and great histories intertwine for many characters in the novel, contributing to the creation of a world with mythological nuances and, at the same time, demythologized in equal measure. A methodological exercise of close reading and narrative analysis is used to demonstrate how Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu manages to construct a world in which the identity crisis and the historical crisis are not separate, but depend on each other, both contributing to the creation and definition of the characters' identity. Furthermore, it might be argued that all the crises of history in The Black Sun can be interpreted as the sum of the individual identity crises that the characters cause, intentionally or unintentionally, also as a consequence of history, the influence being mutual and perpetual.