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Ion Luca Caragiale, commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humour. Alongside…
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culture · Romanian writer, political commentator and journalist (1852–1912) · linguist · poet · writer · journalist · playwright · children's writer · translator · short story writer · also Ion Luca Caragiale, Caragiale, Luca Ion Palicar Caragiale
Born 13 February 1852 · Died 9 June 1912 · Q315132
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A wave of charm, of reconciliation with life passes above all [his characters], one which, if it only assumes light and superficial shapes, experienced by naive people with harmless manias, is a sign that the collective existence is taking place in shelter from the great trials.
“A wave of charm, of reconciliation with life passes above all [his characters], one which, if it only assumes light and superficial shapes, experienced by naive people with harmless manias, is a sign that the collective existence is taking place in shelter from the great trials.”
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agerpres: Comunicat de presă - Casa de Cultură 'Ion Luca Caragiale' a Municipiului Ploiești
Upon the completion of a five-year project involving cartoonists inside and outside Romania, he was designated "the most portrayed writer" by the Guinness Book of Records (with over 1,500 individual drawings in a single
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Offered an alternative take on the Caragiales' origin
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Historian Georgeta Ene proposed that Caragiale was acting as a spy for Romania in Germany
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A West German film, directed by Radu Gabrea and based on O făclie de Paște, was released as Fear Not, Jacob
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A house in Ploiești has been turned into a museum honoring Caragiale (the Dobrescu House)
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Upon the proposal of novelist Mihail Sadoveanu
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Died 1912-06-09.
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Caragiale resumed his contributions to Universul
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Recalled the union of the two Danubian Principalities under Alexander John Cuza, and predicted the union of Transylvania with Romania
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Joined the Conservative-Democratic Party, a rising force of the entrepreneurial middle class, led by Take Ionescu
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Confessed that he was devastated by news of his death
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Caragiale was shaken by the outbreak and violent repression of the Romanian Peasants' Revolt, and decided to write a lengthy essay, in which he condemned the agrarian policies of both National Liberal and Conservative go
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Din primăvară până în toamnă, his late and disillusioned work, Caragiale lashed out at the traditional class of political clients, with an indictment which, Tudor Vianu believed, also served to identify the main focus of
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Together with Zarifopol, he visited Beethoven's house in Bonn
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Inaugurated his own company, Berăria cooperativă, which took over the Gambrinus pub in front of the National Theater
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And becoming an important venue for social criticism
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The position was suppressed due to cutbacks in budget spending
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Wrote a lengthy essay on the state of Romanian theater, in which he notably praised the actor Ion Brezeanu, who made his name through portrayals of Caragiale's characters, for, among others, his "sober and refined int
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Writing for the Conservative paper Epoca, the writer lashed out at Sturdza and his partisans, claiming that they viewed all humorous talents as "unholy", "useless to the nation", and "downright perilous"
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Macedonski reflected with irony:"As early as 1872, the clients of some beer gardens in the capital have had the occasion to welcome among them of a noisy young man, a bizarre spirit who seemed destined, were he to have d
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At the age of 43, Caragiale decided to join the Radical Party, led at the time by former Junimist George Panu; one year later, he began contributing to its mouthpiece, the newspaper Ziua
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The writer followed the Radical group into its unusual merger with the Conservative Party
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Caragiale published two volumes of prose, including his new novellas Păcat, O făclie de Paște and Om cu noroc
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At the same time as his volume of collected works, Caragiale published and staged his rural-themed tragedy Năpasta — both writings were presented for consideration to the Romanian Academy, in view of receiving its annual
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As a preface to Caragiale's collected plays)
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When Maiorescu ascended to the office of Minister of Education in the Teodor Rosetti cabinet (formed by a group of Junimist Conservatives)
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And the writer had the prospect of inheriting a large fortune
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Gave birth to Mateiu, whom Caragiale recognized as his son
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And found himself on the verge of bankruptcy; he thus accepted the lowly position of clerk for the civil registry administration
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And was so successful that state theaters in cities such as Craiova and Iași made efforts to have it included in their own programs
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Printed Conu Leonida față cu reacțiunea — a play centered on an uncultured "Red" pensioner and his naive wife, who overhear a street brawl and believe that a revolution is imminent
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Caragiale and Maiorescu left for Iași, where they attended Junimea's 15th anniversary, and where Caragiale read his first draft of the celebrated play O noapte furtunoasă
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Also translated a series of French-language plays for the National Theater: Alexandre Parodi's Rome vaincue (it was showcased in late 1877-early 1878), Paul Déroulède's L'Hetman, and Eugène Scribe's Une camaraderie
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At the age of 21, with poems and humorous chronicles printed in G
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Witnessed the Republic of Ploiești — a short-lived stated created by the liberal groups, in an attempt to oust Domnitor Carol I (the future King of Romania)
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Was the sole provider for his mother and sister
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Caragiale witnessed Cuza's toppling by a coalition of conservatives and liberals — as he later acknowledged in his Grand Hotel "Victoria Română", he and his friends agreed to support the move by voting "yes" during a sub
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Being received with enthusiasm by Dragoșescu and all his pupils
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Born 1852-02-13.
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