DESPRE UN DIALOG INTRACULTURAL
ABOUT AN INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Summary/Abstract: The present approach focuses, on one hand, on the way in which Eminescu and Caragiale perceive their contemporaneity, starting from a few empiric facts and on the other hand, lacking the „anxiety of influence”, Caragiale brings about new semantic valences to images already crystallized in Eminescuʼs publications (civic guard). At the first level there are observed the mechanisms through which Cracanel, a mediocre actor of the times, becomes, in Eminescuʼs work, the goropistic political archetype and at Caragiale the archetype of a ridiculous Don Juan. The second level emphasizes even more the difference of peception between the two great spirits. Eminescuʼs „theoretical demon”, deeply reflexive, is doubled by a realism preponderantly tragic; Caragialeʼs daimon, prying and lazy, is doubled, in itʼs creation, by a cynical realism. In different ways, therefore, but related – resembling the Socrates-Diogenes equation –, Eminescu and Caragiale share the same contemporaneity; or, the contemporary is, by Giorgio Agmabenʼs fair remark, „the one whose eyes are struck by the beam of darkness that comes from his own time.”

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