I.L.Caragiale – Între hazard şi iluzie
I.L. Caragiale – Between Hazard and Illusion

Summary/Abstract: Part of a larger study, this article offers a different perspective on Caragiale’s writings. Staging a world built on hazard and illusion, where the spiritualized Demiurge is replaced by an author playing with collages, many of Caragiale’s texts, such as La Moşi, Repaus duminical, Moşii. Tablă de materii and others, assert his tendency towards a burlesque agglomeration of forms and matters. Sequences reminding of Rabelais, in which digestion is, basically, a sign of life under the sign of hazard, function as attempts to take possession of the materiality of the world and of the text. Refusing the transparence of linguistic signs, words get intoxicated with their own materiality, building up moments of greedy reveries and inebriation of the senses, of verbal delirium and disharmonic harmony. Because the spectacle of the matter conceals (or reveals) the world’s lack of transparency.

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