In this study we analyzed the narrative formula from the short prose of the Romanian writers B. P. Hasdeu, C. Negruzzi, L. Donici, P. Goma, to identify the readiness to look for new discursive strategies. After a substantially updated critical reconsideration, we established that the authors demonstrate in the short prose texts mobility and unexpected vivacity, noting the diversity of narrative strategies. In each case it was necessary to move critical inertions, to discover innovations in the narrative formulation of discourse polymorphism, the dialogic report of variations and the parodic undermining of romantic works (B. P. Hasdeu); recourse to Autoparody, the play with narrative voices, the ambiguity of the reference (C. Negruzzi); the self-fiction essence of the refugee drama, undermining the communist ideological strategies of the mancurtization of the human being (Leon Donici), forcing to write in another genre, building complicated mental mixtures, prominent tematization of mental cognitive processes (Paul Goma).