Reading Caragiale. Between contestation and acknowledgement
Reading Caragiale. Between contestation and acknowledgement

Summary/Abstract: An important question is, who Caragiale really was and how can his psychosocial and professional profile be defined? It is rather difficult to identify a certain place, relative to the necessary precepts of the literary movements or the social conventions of his times. The affable Caragiale becomes a misfit who always functioned out of sync with the tendencies of his era and the wishes or decisions of his contemporaries. Despite, or rather thanks to this status, that „reflex of common sense” can be described as a „value of judgment” of those times, proof being that he is perceived in the same manner after more than a century. Despite everything mentioned, Caragiale was not easy to read, a moralist befitting his time. Why did he choose to be a genuine actor outside the stage and not entirely in the middle of the representation? Was it because of the manner in which he built his character, was it because he was afraid of being compared to a certain typology of character?

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