Parodierea realismului în romanul Craii de Curtea-Veche
Parodying Realism in the Novel Craii de Curtea-Veche

Summary/Abstract: The present study develops the realistic and modernist procedures used for parodic purposes by Mateiu I. Caragiale in Rakes of the Old Court. These procedures are: the rejection of mirroring contemporary reality due to the author's appetite for the 18th century and for aristocracy, the caricaturization of the arivist typology, the parody of the veracity of spatio-temporal landmarks, the ironization of the process of creating a realistic work, the use of rejection of aesthetic idealism at the beginning of the text, the use of the technique of significant detail to caricature and the abandonment of narrative omniscience. In the work, parody becomes a manifestation of intertextuality, as it involves the dialogue between the novel and a previous volume of poems by the same author and marks the communication between the lyric and the epic. Mateiu I. Caragiale creates a critical parody in his novel, because he diversifies the literary trends of the era through the distinction between value and non-value, between noble and marginal. The parody of realism in Rakes of the Old Court has more the meaning of "criticism of reality", as the author does not explicitly aim to create humorous sequences, because his primary goal is the aesthetic finality of the novel.

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