Motto: “’Floarea din asfalt’ is one of those noble books that call one back to the essence.” Upon reading Alexandra Svet’s book, you are inevitably reminded of Dostoyevsky’s famous adage: “Beauty will save the world”. “Floarea din asfalt” (“The Flower in the Asphalt”), a confessional writing worthy of a début award not only in Romania, but in any other great literature of the world, bears witness to the fact that true art is salvific, as it is always the case whenever Beauty,