Abstract: (Lavinia Braniște's Characters – a Biography of Post-Communist Women?) Set against the backdrop of “autofictional frames” (Schiop 2021), Lavinia Braniște’s novels offer a multifaceted “identity card” of the feminine experience in postcommunism. “Very actual and recognisable” (Coșa 2021), the facets juxtaposed in writings such as Sonia ridică mâna (2019), Interior zero (2016), Escapada (2014), Mă găsești când vrei (2021) are not quite the “indistinct flavours” of “reheated soup” (Rogozanu 2021). Accused of chaotic, unnatural representations, of unusual narrative cuttings (Burța-Cernat 2016), Braniște does not fall into mannerism, however, and the present study aims to go beyond the link with the author’s autobiography imputed to her novels and show how the fragility of femininity/female characters is not a consequence of an inconsistency at the level of narrative: the novels are precisely of a simplicity – of an almost elliptical structure – that shows the distortions and inconsistencies of a world that demolishes precisely the inner foundations of identity. Without entering into a hermeneutic tributary to the rhetoric centred on the notion of gender, we focus on the relation of the female characters to the social, even sociological dimension of the recent past, since the weak character always (re)composes a fragmented biography whose resemantizations remain insufficiently explored.