TEENMAGZ Acting 2 Speak English November 2016 "People are birds with wings growing inside" (Nichita Stanescu) CULTURAL PERSONALITIES FROM PRAHOVA Contents I.L.Caragiale 3 By Georgiana Stefania Petre, Mihaela Movila Iulia Hasdeu 8 By Georgiana Stefania Petre, Mihaela Movila Nicolae Iorga 11 By Mihaela Cosmina Daiana Dobre, Georgiana Stefania Petre Nichita Stanescu 14 By Mihaela Cosmina Diana Dobre, Mihaela Movila Ion Stratan 16 By Mihaela Movila, Mihaela Cosmina Diana Dobre, Georgiana Stefania Petre Nicolae Grigorescu 18 By Mihaela Movila, Mihaela Cosmina Diana Dobre, Georgiana Stefania Petre Cover graphics: Veronica Hutanu Coordinating teacher: Veronica Hutanu Made for the project "Acting 2 Speak English" TEENMAGZ Ion Luca Caragiale INFOMAG Borne: 13 february 1852, Haimanale, Prahova Died: 9 June 1912, Berlin, Germany His name pronunciation: [iˈon ˈluka kara ˈd͡ʒjale] Occupation: short story writer, journalist, essayist, Literary Creation actor,translator,poet Genre: drama, comedy, tragedy, shor story, sketch story, novella,satire, fantasy, memoir,fairy Creator of a complex, diverse and original tale work, starting with prose and verses, elegy, politicSubject: fable, sonnet, anecdote, serial, pamphlet and everyday life, morals and manners, sketches, I. L. Caragiale masters drama art like politics, social no other. Plays like ​A Tempestuous Night criticism (1879), ​Cone Leonida faces the reaction​ (1880), D-ale carnavalului​ (1885), ​A Lost Letter​ (1884), ​The Calamity​ (1890) constitute a perfect radiography of the romanian society. http://muzeedambovitene.ro/arhiva_web/en /casa_caragiale_opera.php TEENMAGZ “I​ only write about our life and for our life, because I don't know another one and I don't care about another one.​ ” Tragic and fantastic can be found I.L. Caragiale selected the heroes in in his short stories - A Easter Torch, his work from various environments: Sin, At Minjoala's Inn, Devil's horse, family, school, mass-media, justice During The War, Kir Ianulea, Abu system, high life or politics. Hassan​, while comic can be found in sketches - Mr. Goe, The Visit, Telegrams, Bubico, character and http://muzee- manners comedies - A Lost Letter, A dambovitene.ro/arhiva_web/en/casa Tempestuous Night, Cone Leonida _caragiale_opera.php faces the reaction​, ​D-ale carnavalului​. The author of A lost letter is also the creator of the sketch in the romanian literature and, at the same time, it's unoverfulfilled master. I. L. Caragiale has the merit of achieving the artistic perfection in a series of literary miniatures that show an extremely picturesque world. The comedy A Lost Letter was played for the first time at the National Theatre in Bucharest, on November 13, 1884, registering a great public success with its series of 11 consecutive performances, within only three weeks. TEENMAGZ His plays are a perfect blend between tragic and comic, realism and fantastic. Caragiale joins classic with realism, creating a drama language unique in our literature. His work has a great artistic value. The tragic aspects of human experience are present in short stories: ​A Easter Torch​ (1889), ​Boyer Sin​ (1892), During The War​ (1898) and so on. Caragiale was also a translator. He translated ​Beaten Rome​ by Al. Parodi, Hatmanul​ by Paul Deroulede, ​Cardasia​ by E. Scribe and so on. I. L. Caragiale created a work with characteristic features that make it unique in Romanian literature's context, a work that contains three different universes: comic, tragic and fantastic. TEENMAGZ ​ At Minjoala's Inn It's a short story written by Ion Luca Female demon frequently illustrates Caragiale. This novel has features that why the idea of an erotic euphoria that make it unique in the context of often hides a complex of frustration, ie national literature but also universal. subconsciously repressed desire It is a work that easily distinguish intimate, imaginative experiences that three different universes: comic, tragic rises to the surface. and fantastic. Supernatural forces intervene to One of the forms of devilish help passionate love, often illegitimate temptation capable of degrading human relations plan, to be carried physical and moral human being and out, falling into sin. The same happens may even direct it as a fatality is blind with FANICA. A woman is seen mainly to death eroticism. If the narration as an object of desire, the pleasure of written by I.L. Caragiale "La Mansion" carnal and sensual unleashing what devil retains its masculine attributes, life spasm approaching death. Thus numerous other authors such as Mihai the woman as the embodiment Eminescu, Mircea Eliade, Gala demonic personalities manifest Galaction correlates thesensual requirements of a devouring. fulfillment with almost morbid attraction to infernal feminity. The inn - the symbol of the passage, the inn is a bridge, a place of refuge, a shelter temporarily. The fire - the demonic fire or the destroing fire, highlights the property of the fire of burning and destroing. It's an evil of nature. Often Inferno or the world of the death are seen as spaces of this fire. The labyrinth - prehistoric labyrinths were used to close the evil spirits inside them. TEENMAGZ A Tourch Burning The novel shows that happened in The themes explored in the novel the village of Podeni, whose innkeeper include psychological state of fear and Jew Leiba Zibal is the servant this induced dementia and foreign threatened his Gheorghe robbery on human condition of society in which the night of the resurrection. Being he lives. Racial discrimination/ attacked in exactly that night, Zibal religion becomes a reason for cessation save himself keeping and burning the of mental character. hand of the thief, inserted through a Leiba Zibal act of willingness to hole cut in the door. Asked the cause of apply his own justice in a world where his reaction, Zibal gives psychic, there is justice. The disparity between responding that his gesture would be its meanings and villagers expressed to "lit a torch of Christ", and that he them by insults and derogatory against became "naked" popular term derived him Leiba, weakening triggers psychic from the goyim, a word in Yiddish character. appoint a man not part of the Hebrew people, or an "infidel, from the point of view of the Jewish" becomes a reason for cessation of mental character. The author practiced daylight fresh shock experimen over the darkness of passions and extreme facts. Narrative style adopted is hurried shorthand, but representative of the psychological processes taking place in the mind of the character. The attention to detail in the narrative descriptions suggest naturalistic character, present throughout the work of Caragiale. TEENMAGZ Iulia Hasdeu INFOMAG Born: 14 november 1869, Bucharest Died: 29 september 1888, Bucharest Occupation:poet Genre: Subject: In 1881, at 12 years old,accompanied by her mother, Iulia went to Paris, where Literary Work she entered Sévigné College and passed the Baccalaureate She published during his lifetime, only four poems in exam. French language L'Etoile roumaine: Les Contes bleus, Larmes d'enfance, Dedain, Le souhaii d'une Villaine (1887). In 1886, Iulia Iulia Hasdeu posthumous work, written in French, enrolled at the was published in three volumes by her father and Faculty of Letters and contains cycles: Bourgeons d'Avril, Fantaisies et Reves Philosophy at (I) Chevalerie, Confidential-ces et Canevas (II), Theatre, Sorbonne University Legendes et contes (III). and attended courses The poems are confessions, meditations and at the École des daydreamings in the spirit of Lamartine, Hugo, Sully Hautes Études Prudhomme,they are opposed to the prosaic life and they (Schools of Higher expresses an aspiration for dignity and moral purity. Studies) in Paris. The plays (L'Years of Trajan, Les Heiduques) exploits historical myths and folklore. La Princesse Papillon tale She started writting a and children's novel Mademoiselle Maussade look doctoral thesis with endowment to describe infant universe. She wrote the the theme centered short story Sandra in Romanian language and the poetry on Romanian folk Romania. Posthumous volume of poems in French is philosophy: logic, welcomed by Angelo de Gubernatis, Emile Boutroux, psychology, Louis Leger and Al. I. Odobescu. metaphysics, ethics It has preserved a rich correspondence in French with and theodicy. B. P. Hasdeu, her father collapsed psychologically after irreparable loss of his child, killed by phthisis. http://www.referatele.com/referate/romana/Iulia- Hasdeu TEENMAGZ Iulia Hasdeu Castle Do you know...? Iulia Hasdeu Castle is a folly house built in the form of small castle by historian and politician Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu in the city of Câmpina, Romania. Work on it began in 1893, after Hasdeu's daughter, Iulia Hasdeu, died at The Legend Of The Castle the age of 19, an event that dramatically shook and changed Hasdeu's life. He The story post mortem daughter's Hasdeu, Iulia (or claimed that his Julia) and the castle-temple from Campina is one of the most belated daughter mysterious legends true of the Kingdom, deserving to stand provided the plans for in a place Tourist guide by Romania with the ghost of Tepes building the castle or Queen Mary Bran and Ceausescu's People's House ... during sessions of because Julia was true ghost. spiritism. The Killed by pain, Haşdeu quit Giant literary work, building was Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae, Encyclopedic Dictionary completed in 1896. of the Romanian language, they had only to point B, the Iulia Hasdeu word man, and dedicate themselves completely remembering Castle, which was Julia, in the first instance by attempting to replicate this in requiring a lot of vault from Bellu, the resting place turned into a place of reparation, even meditation and discussion with the spirit girl. By seance is revealing a new project to bring him closer when Hasdeu was in to his daughter and withdraw from Campina, where building life, was affected by plans after a mysterious castle Julia: "This castle was built in the First World War the years 1894-189, the plan being given by spirit Julia and in 1924 the Hasdeu Hasdeu through the medium, then designated People's Atheneum of architectural T.