WHO YOU ARE IS (NOT) WHAT YOU WRITE
WHO YOU ARE IS (NOT) WHAT YOU WRITE

Summary/Abstract: Based on George Steiner’s concept of cultural topologies (the transformations, re-tellings or re-workings that any cultural artifact may go through and still be ,,the same”- text, film, drama, ballet, cartoon, music, painting…) the paper starts from a play-Parfumerie- and a short story-Appointment with Love-by more or less obscure authors (Miklos Laszlo and Sulamith Ish-Kishor) to follow several translations, adaptations, variants, plagiarized ,,versions”… in a surprisingly long series of such closely related artistic products. The explanation for this ,,huge appeal” of the two texts is found in the simplicity of the template narrative fable and the two fundamental human components-identity and communication-that form its substance.

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