THE GAME OF CHILDHOOD FOR ION CREANGĂ AND MARK TWAIN
THE GAME OF CHILDHOOD FOR ION CREANGĂ AND MARK TWAIN

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a perspective shared to anyone of us, irrespective of our age, though a tribute to the golden young age, when we used to read with a breathless thirt these two giants. Beyond the pleasure of the literary subjects, we discover an ironical gift to underline remarkable social situations which seemed unbelievable so far. Monographic studies, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and Tom Sawyer, as well as Creangă’s Memories, become an unexpected common narrative, with so many similarities, apart from specific cultural background. Thus, we discover that children are just the same everywhere, tasting the experience of the green years, having no fear of anything, facing blind dangers or suffering when we less imagined it could have been possible. On the other hand, nowadays intellectuals may provide the curious reaction when suspects the hidden role, at a linguistic level, for so many American dialects used by Twain, or the patriarchal scent of the Moldavian lexic – both representative for the 19th century. Not too many steps to a particular humour, impossible to adopt by the interested ones, but fairly enjoyed by the readers. Characters are definetly memorable. Children and parents, first love dates, school matters, church services, nice or strange adults apparently guiding their sons and daughters’ lives. A parallel should interphere at times, among the works of the two writers, a critical comparison ought to be sustained, still, such a lightful coloured bless of talent and understanding covers our feelings, as a whole, matching with the general opinion of acceptance dealing with recognized masterpieces.

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