Gulliver In The Land Of The Long Shadows
             1.The stereotype of the Englishman as a traveller of the world.
             2.The curiosity about '' the other'' as a Gulliver Syndrome.
             3.Fictionalised versions of Eastern Europe by british authors:
             - Malcom Bradbury,RATES OF EXCHANGE; WHY COME TO SLAKA
             -Alan Brownjohn,THE LONG SHADOWS,1996
             4.Plot: Tim Harker- Jones is committed by a publishing house in London to write the biography of the famous writer Philip Carston. He visits Romania in order to clarify certain information gaps concerning Carston's later years. During his first visit as a guest of the Writer's Union, in the late ' 80 's Tim finds himself seized in an intricate web of human relations and coincidences which leave him in a state of perpetual bewilderment and lead to a series of cultural blunderings. A second visit in May 1990 confronts Tim with early posttotalitarian Romania and will reveal the true extent of Carolina Predeanu's contribution to Carston's novel A TIME APART and the passionate love affair between the two.
             5.The book is a palimpsest of several layers that lends itself to several levels of reading:
             5.1.A study in IMAGOLOGY,due to its double standards of otherness. The two Europes
             divided by The Iron Curtain stand as separate constituents marked by incompatible values.On the British side: Cf .Nick Tillit's behavious at the airport (88);Tim's prevailing mood of being in the middle of a conspiracy (88;90-1;91).on the Romanian side:Carolina Predeanu; Liviu Bobolescu
             5.2.Intertextually irrigated by the Dracula Myth ''in modern guise.''
             -Tim Harker- Jones and Jonathan Harker -the visitor as a prisoner in the space of the other where the values of his home culture seem to operate no more. (92)
             -Alan Brownjohn on the '' Dracula Syndrome'' (92)
             6.THEME: clichees and deeply rooted stereotypes can lead to cultural blundering.
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