Romanian Literature as World Literature has a salutary effect, for it succeeds in providing a set of well-documented and pertinent answers meant to cure Romanian literature of the symptoms of nationalism . The volume published in the prestigious Bloomsbury Academic''s series ''Literature as World Literature'' edited by Thomas O. Beebee comprises a theoretically dense Introduction and 15 articles that demythologize the ''national reading'' of literature, proposing a paradigmatic and epistemological shift that integrates Romanian literature into a nodal qua cosmopolitan and multifaceted ethno-linguistic context in which centers, hierarchies, and hegemonic claims are blurred . RLWL can serve as an indispensable tool for scrutinizing other eastern European literatures. It is, above all, a theoretical ''manifesto'' that successfully revises and redefines Romanian literature as Weltliteratur, and integrates it into a global geocultural palimpsest . [T]he volume deserves a Romanian translation so as to familiarize national readers with a timely revisionist project that is apt to contribute to the making of a 21st-history of Romanian literature, and also to generate further debates among Romanian critics.