EXCESSIVENESS IN TERMS OF TIME AND SPACE IN CARAGIALE'S PROSE
EXCESSIVENESS IN TERMS OF TIME AND SPACE IN CARAGIALE'S PROSE

Summary/Abstract: When you read Caragiale, you can only be amused, inspired, sad and even scared. This fact is demonstrated by the variety of registers approached by the author: comic, ironic, tragic and even psychoanalytical. When we read author’s prose of relative length we find all these approaches, which makes it difficult to frame it in a certain literary species or aesthetic orientation. The temporal and spatial framework in the author's psychological prose is excessive, and the excesses in his art lead the works to caricature. We are interested in proving that Caragiale's comic-tragic prose is also under the sign of excess, analyzing, through it, the deep layers of the human psyche, using the tools available at the time of creation. Some critics consider a closeness between Caragiale’s personality and his work, thus suggesting that Caragiale's interest in explaining life and the meanders of the human soul leads his work into areas of abyss and psychological analysis

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