SYMBOLS OF THE DEVIL CHARACTER IN THE 19TH CENTURY JOURNALISTIC PROSE - POSITIVE TRAITS
SYMBOLS OF THE DEVIL CHARACTER IN THE 19TH CENTURY JOURNALISTIC PROSE - POSITIVE TRAITS

Summary/Abstract: The nineteenth-century Romanian culture is an extraordinary endeavour that may be said to have begun with the journalistic work of some important authors such as Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, N. T. Orășanu, Ion Heliade Rădulescu and others. Their satirical proses in the pages of periodicals which have allegorical names Ŕ Aghiuță, Spiriduș, Nichipercea, Sarsailă, criticize the blamable aspects of the society by means of some mithologycal constructs Ŕ the diabolic characters, but in the version of the figures of some special satirists who strive to signal the negative aspects in the Romanian society, who have the courage to reveal bad morals or inequities. These are some positive traits in the demonic character which gives his name, in different variants, to periodicals named above.

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