Virgil Tanase put forward a theory of the novel as focused on objects: the ideal nouveau roman would be an individual version and vision of things, subordinating plot and character to the details of the world rather than enlisting the world in their service. As writer, Virgil Tănase, a subtle observer of the world we are living in, brings again in the foreground, the existential drama of a human being in its daily deployment, the worries of the common individual, the non-hero that had to face the grey and common side of life, doomed to become estranged in his own world.