BARBU ȘTEFĂNESCU DELAVRANCEA AND I. L. CARAGIALE –FEATURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NATURALIST CHARACTER – CASE STUDY
BARBU ȘTEFĂNESCU DELAVRANCEA AND I. L. CARAGIALE –FEATURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NATURALIST CHARACTER – CASE STUDY

Summary/Abstract: The naturalism, one of the most controversial literary movements, has particularly found its followers throughout all the 19th century, starting from France and spreading around the whole Europe. Being know as one of the most challenging literary movements of its times, the naturalism wanted itself to become an extension of the realism. Its focus was to display the hardest realities, the sickness, the death, the misery, all the human body and soul’s less pleasant facts. In Romania, the naturalism was adopted by many representative writers, among which Barbu Delavrancea and Caragiale are to be found. Delavrancea, one of the romantics, adopted the naturalism to vivid his characters and to express the grotesque perspective upon them, while Caragiale, the classicism’s most representative writer, adopted the naturalism to strengthen his dramas and sharpen his characters. This paper aim is to display both approaches of the naturalism as a literary movement and to identify two perspectives from the various ones this controversial literary movement has embraced around the 19th century.

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