Relația eu-alteritate în romanul Craii de Curtea-Veche
The Self-Other Relationship in the Novel Craii de Curtea-Veche

Summary/Abstract: The present work is carried out both from an imagological perspective and through an existentialist lens and follows the way in which the self-otherness relationship is established in the imagotypical novel Rakes of the Old Court, written by Mateiu I. Caragiale in 1929. The imagological discourse of the work is also analyzed according to the three forms of manifestation specific to the field: xenophilia, xenophobia and xenomania. From an existentialist perspective, according to Jean Paul Sartre, the relationship of the self with the self is mediated by an “other”, but, in this novel, this also interferes with that between the two collective identities of the work: the nobles and the marginals. Jean Paul Sartre puts good faith as the basis for friendship, a relationship possible only for virtuous people, according to Aristotle, and in Rakes of the Old Court we found that, literally, none of the rakes are virtuous. The friendship between them is based on the supremacy of one party over the other, and together, by embodying the aristocratic ideal, they distinguish themselves from the rest of the characters. However, the imagotypes in this novel reveal the characters’ openness and acceptance of otherness through the native multiculturalism of Mateiu I. Caragiale’s universe.

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