Mateiu Caragiale
Poet, short story writer, novelist, visual artist, heraldist, civil servant (1885-1936) · Romania · On the map · Writers · Died at 50
Mateiu Ion Caragiale, also credited as Matei or Matheiu, or in the antiquated version Mateiŭ, was a Romanian poet and prose writer, best known for his novel Craii de Curtea-Veche, which portrays the milieu of boyar descendants before and after World War I.
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Ion Luca Caragiale holding Mateiu, ca. 1890
Photograph of the aging Caragiale
Caragiale's bookplate, drawn in his own hand and showing the coat of arms he had designed for himself
Mateiu Caragiale's illustration to his Craii de Curtea-Veche
Caru cu bere restaurant, setting for Caragiale's Sub pecetea tainei
Mateiu Caragiale on a 1985 Romanian stampAwards
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Caragiale's style, associated with Symbolism, the Decadent movement of the fin de siècle, and early modernism, was an original element in the Romanian literature of the interwar period. In other late contributions, Caragiale pioneered detective fiction locally, but there is disagreement over whether his work in the field produced a complete narrative or just fragments. The scarcity of writings he left is contrasted by their critical acclaim and a large, mostly posthumous, following, commonly known as mateists.
