Ion Luca Caragiale, commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist.
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Caragiale in Balkan costume, photographed ca. 1900
The adolescent Caragiale
Caragiale in his youth
The Russian Army in Bucharest, print in The Illustrated London News (1877)
Ion Luca and Mateiu Caragiale before 1900
First printed version of D-ale carnavalului, as published in Convorbiri Literare (May 1885)
Alexandrina BurellyAwards 1
In their orbit 3
Writers born in the 1850s 6
About this person
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 Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life. His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.
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