Abstract (A Lyrical Voice between West and East: Cristian Popescu): In a time when Romania was characterized by lyrical effervescence, immediately after the Fall of the Berlin Wall, a poet was to affirm himself as a voice defined, sui-generis, by a local, Balkan background, based on a Mitteleuropa type of humanist education. That very writer, Cristian Popescu, who practically turned into a legend due both to an early affirmation marked by a percussive verse, and a quick and tragic death, would become a landmark meant to inspire waves of creative authors in the last years. The features of Cristian Popescu’s poems express a special sensitivity which goes back to the eighteenth century when, under the Phanariote influence, with Turkish cultural sources, filtered through the so-called little French poetry, a vigorous reflection of life songs would start and be remarked. On the other hand, the philologist structure of the poet allows him to mix the meridional layer of the artistic reflection of life with the western reflection, metaphysically influenced by German and French sources. Hence, the poet’s striking originality as a typically postmodernist palimpsest author, with a clear presence of both the world’s secondarity lament, which is to be found in the social periphery bitterness, and the clippings from the great cognitive theories of humanity, which are melted in expressions that promote the unusualness of the logic which places the human being into a desirable coherence. Our enterprise aims at identifying the sources of the durable presence of the Levantine mentalities in a certain area, the Oriental one, represented by Romània, as well as their continuous interference and cohabitation with the pressures generated by, first of all, the French intellectual influences and, secondly, by the German ones.