FORMS OF COMIC IN CALISTRAT HOGAŞ’S WORK
FORMS OF COMIC IN CALISTRAT HOGAŞ’S WORK

Summary/Abstract: Hogas’s work remains, in the Romanian literature, a creation without imitation. What defines it, on the one hand, is the mixture of classical, romantic and modern elements, and, on the other side, the author’s playful spirit that generates charming language and descriptions but also the narrative’s dynamism. The expressiveness of Hogas’s text is marked by the spontaneity of the language and by the contrast between essence and appearance, a fundamental feature of the comic. In Hogas’s work, the comic manifests itself mainly through humour and irony, both in narrating events but also in portraying the characters. It is a classic, irresistible humour, resulting from the association of the scholarly and popular language but also from the author’s exaggerations in presenting scenes and shaping portraits.

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