Re-shaping the totalitarian age through memory turns into the main mechanism of constructing a self-reflexive writing which follows the autofictional pattern, within which the narrator finds himself at the crossroads of the ‘revived’ Great History and the ever-experienced personal one through writing itself. It is the case of Herta Müller’s Herztier, an autofictional novel in which the author re-defines herself by use of the ‘post-traumatic’ discourse mirroring the permanent quest of identity — be it collective or personal — with each and every recollected part of the Romanian communist age.