The Harbour as a Multicultural Crossroad in Radu Tudoran’s and Jean Bart’s Writings
Journal: ACROSS Journal of Interdisciplinary Cross-border Studies
Year: 2025

The harbours are fascinating places. Their colourful world, their bustle, and their ethnic mixture create the image of one of a kind universe. They are the meeting place of cultures and values, as one can read in Radu Tudoran’s Un port la răsărit and Jean Bart’s Europolis. The former novel takes place on the shore of Limanu Lake in Basarabia, and the latter is placed in Sulina. They both share the multicultural and multi-ethnic approach as the young engineer telling the story faces the crossroad