L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale

This article wishes to reevaluate the image of the Greek in Romanian culture by using as an example the literary works of Mateiu Ion Caragiale (1885‑1936) and Panait Istrati (1884‑1935). The deep relationship between biography and fiction is, in the case of these two authors, a key to interpreting t...

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Main Author: Alexandra Vranceanu Pagliardini
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Language:English
Published: Centre d'Études Balkaniques 2017-11-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/9719
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description This article wishes to reevaluate the image of the Greek in Romanian culture by using as an example the literary works of Mateiu Ion Caragiale (1885‑1936) and Panait Istrati (1884‑1935). The deep relationship between biography and fiction is, in the case of these two authors, a key to interpreting the ways in which the image of the Greek changes during the modern period. If during the xviiith and the xixth century the Greeks coming from Phanar were considered to be corrupt social climbers, in the works of P. Istrati and M. I. Caragiale we assist at a symbolical recovery of the influences coming from the Levant. The multicultural tradition of the gates to the Orient and of the harbors for the Orient became in their writings a source of literary inspiration and a part of the Romanian cultural heritage. Unlike the representation of the Orient by Romantic occidental writers, P. Istrati and M. I. Caragiale have an ambivalent point of view, which sees in the Levantine Friend an “exotic” and “another myself” at the same time.
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spelling doaj-art-67f18a3e4f834cbaa2ba34a0122548cc2025-08-20T01:55:00ZengCentre d'Études BalkaniquesCahiers Balkaniques0290-74022261-41842017-11-014410.4000/ceb.9719L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion CaragialeAlexandra Vranceanu PagliardiniThis article wishes to reevaluate the image of the Greek in Romanian culture by using as an example the literary works of Mateiu Ion Caragiale (1885‑1936) and Panait Istrati (1884‑1935). The deep relationship between biography and fiction is, in the case of these two authors, a key to interpreting the ways in which the image of the Greek changes during the modern period. If during the xviiith and the xixth century the Greeks coming from Phanar were considered to be corrupt social climbers, in the works of P. Istrati and M. I. Caragiale we assist at a symbolical recovery of the influences coming from the Levant. The multicultural tradition of the gates to the Orient and of the harbors for the Orient became in their writings a source of literary inspiration and a part of the Romanian cultural heritage. Unlike the representation of the Orient by Romantic occidental writers, P. Istrati and M. I. Caragiale have an ambivalent point of view, which sees in the Levantine Friend an “exotic” and “another myself” at the same time.https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/9719Twentieth centuryRomaniaNineteenth centuryRomanian literatureGreek‑Romanian relationsImage of the Greek
spellingShingle Alexandra Vranceanu Pagliardini
L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale
Cahiers Balkaniques
Twentieth century
Romania
Nineteenth century
Romanian literature
Greek‑Romanian relations
Image of the Greek
title L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale
title_full L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale
title_fullStr L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale
title_full_unstemmed L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale
title_short L’image du Grec dans l’œuvre de Panaït Istrati et Mateiu Ion Caragiale
title_sort l image du grec dans l oeuvre de panait istrati et mateiu ion caragiale
topic Twentieth century
Romania
Nineteenth century
Romanian literature
Greek‑Romanian relations
Image of the Greek
url https://journals.openedition.org/ceb/9719
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