Ion Luca Caragiale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian playwright, writer and poet
Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1852
Place of Birth: I.L. Caragiale, Dâmbovița County, Romania
Date of Death: 09-Jun-1912
Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, journalist, children's writer, linguist
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Ion Luca Caragiale
- Ion Luca Caragiale (Romanian pronunciation: [i'on 'luka kara'd??jale]; commonly referred to as I.
- L.
- Caragiale; 13 February [O.S.
- 1 February] 1852 – 9 June 1912) was a Wallachian, later 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 Creanga, 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. Although few in number, Caragiale's plays constitute the most accomplished expression of Romanian theater, as well as being important venues for criticism of late-19th-century Romanian society.
- They include the comedies O noapte furtunoasa, Conu Leonida fata cu reactiunea, O scrisoare pierduta, and the tragedy Napasta.
- In addition to these, Caragiale authored the melodrama O soacra, a large number of essays, articles, short stories, novellas and sketch stories, as well as occasional works of poetry and autobiographical texts such as Din carnetul unui vechi sufleur.
- In many cases, his creations were first published in one of several magazines he edited—Claponul, Moftul Român, Vatra and Epoca.
- Most of his prose works have been published under the title Momente si schite: they include Caldura mare, Canuta om sucit, Doua loturi, Grand Hotel "Victoria româna", as well as several pieces referring to stock characters such as Lache and Mache, Marius Chicos Rostogan and Mitica.
- In some of his later fiction writings, including La hanul lui Mânjoala, Kir Ianulea, Abu-Hasan, Pastrama trufanda and Calul dracului, Caragiale adopted the fantasy genre or turned to historical fiction. Ion Luca Caragiale was interested in the politics of the Romanian Kingdom, and oscillated between the liberal current and conservatism.
- Most of his satirical works target the liberal republicans and the National Liberals, evidencing both his respect for their rivals at Junimea and his connections with the literary critic Titu Maiorescu.
- He came to clash with National Liberal leaders such as Dimitrie Sturdza and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, and was a lifelong adversary of the Symbolist poet Alexandru Macedonski.
- As a result of these conflicts, the most prominent of Caragiale's critics barred his access to the cultural establishment for several decades.
- During the 1890s, Caragiale rallied with the radical movement of George Panu, before associating with the Conservative Party.
- After having decided to settle in Berlin, he came to voice strong criticism for Romanian politicians of all colours in the wake of the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt, and ultimately joined the Conservative-Democratic Party. He was both a friend and rival to writers such as Eminescu, Maiorescu, and Barbu Stefanescu Delavrancea, while maintaining contacts with, among others, the Junimist essayist Iacob Negruzzi, the socialist philosopher Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, the literary critic Paul Zarifopol, the poets George Cosbuc and Mite Kremnitz, the psychologist Constantin Radulescu-Motru, and the Transylvanian poet and activist Octavian Goga.
- Ion Luca was the nephew of Costache and Iorgu Caragiale, who were major figures of mid-19th century Romanian theatre.
- His sons Mateiu and Luca were both modernist writers.
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