FANTASTIC AND NATURALISTIC ELEMENTS IN SOME OF CARAGIALE’S SHORT STORIES
FANTASTIC AND NATURALISTIC ELEMENTS IN SOME OF CARAGIALE’S SHORT STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Fiction is a frequent motif, met not only in the old literary times, but also in classic and modern period. Ion Luca Caragiale approached this motif in sketches and in his short stories, too. The interference of the dream with the contemporary reality, repetitive and obsessive thoughts, creates the strangest situations leading to madness, magic, witchcraft are some o the motifs the great dramatist used in his writings. This author succeeds with great mastery and talent to create fantastic frames and situations in such a way that his short stories La Hanul lui Mânjoală, În vreme de război, O făclie de Paşte, Calul dracului proove his vocation of a deep, real writer that Caragiale was.

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