(...) We also note the style adopted by the author, who wanted to be analogous to that of the great creators... Reading the work prepared by Mr. Bitoleanu, I was positively surprised by the perseverance with which he sought to understand and reproduce the intellectual and cultural atmosphere in which Umberto Eco launched most of his main ideas. (...) Mr. Iulian Bitoleanu inquired about the evolution of ideas from the 20th century in Italy and France, but also in the United States, focusing on some new constants, because they were not explicitly present in previous modern thinking. Thus, the researcher possesses the process of comparison and distinction. Acad. Tudorel Dima The work of Iulian Bitoleanu, which I went through in manuscript, is an original and profound exegesis dedicated to reference writers of Romanian and universal literature: Mihai Eminescu, Camil Petrescu and Umberto Eco. Horia Gârbea