ELEMENTE DE PORTRET ALE PERSONAJELOR COMEDIILOR LUI CARAGIALE
Caragiale’s characters, elements of portrait

Summary/Abstract: Caragiale was and remains the immanent writer in the Romanian literature, his name entering in the universality. Moreover, Constantin Cubleşan, in his study dedicated to the characters of I.L. Caragiale, appreciated that, the currency of Caragiale writings is undoubtedly the sign of quality, sustainability of literary operas, which can only make us happy. From this point of view we can say that the writer himself lives through his characters, as their vices not only have continued but also flourished and adapted to current times. ,,Each Caragiale’s character wears in its bibliography, in its human structure, a typical gene specific to categories of individuals that pollute the world, especially the Romanian one, no less ... always. The vices are the same, only masks have always been others – at Dimitrie Cantemir in a way, at Iordache Golescu to another, at Vasile Alecsandri with features of fortyeighters and unionist pencil, at Aurel Baranga with paranoia decrees, congresses and plenums, etc”. The deepening of classic knowledge is similar to certain classical junctions, related to the art characterized by masks that are found in comedy characters and sketches to some extent and in the novels in a different facet. Therefore it is said that the work of the writer who lives by what they say and not by what the characters do, are related to two worlds: one comic and one tragic. Caragiale is the author of four comedies, including: A Stormy Night, A Lost Letter, About the carnival, Conu Leonida faces the reaction. In each of the mentioned works, the characters want to live, as confirmed by George Alexandru in an article dedicated to Caragiale’s characters. What defines characters such as Conu Leonida from the comedy with the same title, Ţircădău from A Stormy Night, Nae Caţavencu from A Lost Letter, or Ziţa from A Stormy Night, to give only a few names, first, the four types of comic (of language, situation, character and name) remain. Among these it is by far the comic language, considered one expression of thought, of demanding reductions or affirmation, but seldom absurd.

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