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Ion Creangă is the
greatest Romanian story teller. His main characteristics are his
cheerfulness, his vitality and love for people. That is why, most of
his prose consists of stories in which he creates an individual work
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"There live in Creangă
the beliefs, the customs, the language, poetry, the philosophy of the
common people. The story is as valuable as the talent of the story
teller. And Creangă has so much talent that in his stories people live
with extraordinary power of life and have a surprising individuality." |
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Translated from G. Ibrăileanu (1920).
Povestirile lui Creangă.
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"The realism resulting
from the interest for the detail and the stylistic individuality is a
product of Creangă's art. First of all, Creangă fixes the text once
and for all, so that no other edition is possible. His secret is in the
study of the effects, in the rare words, in the story's fixed character." |
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Translated from Călinescu, George (1964). Ion Creangă.
Bucuresti: EPL |
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All texts translated by © Gustav
Demeter |
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