1. Luca Caragiale's career, cut short by pneumonia, mostly produced lyric poetry with cosmopolitan characteristics, distinct preferences for neologisms and archaisms, and willing treatment of kitsch as a poetic subject.
15 Facts About Luca Caragiale
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Luca Caragiale's poetry earned posthumous critical attention and was ultimately collected in a 1972 edition, but sparked debates among literary historians about the author's contextual importance.
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Luca was Ion Luca Caragiale's second son, after Mateiu, who was born from the dramatist's extra-conjugal affair with Maria Constantinescu.
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Around 1909, with his father's consent, Luca was being tutored in scientific subjects by poet-philosopher Panait Cerna, who was being hosted by the Caragiales in the German Empire while completing his studies.
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Ion Luca Caragiale took a direct approach to his adolescent son's education, and the two often debated on cultural subjects, or on Luca Caragiale's left-wing opinions, such as his support for the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
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Alexandrina, Ecaterina and Luca Caragiale spent two more years in Berlin, living on a Romanian state pension; in mid 1914, sensing that world War I was about to start, the family moved back to Romania, and Luca was forced to give on his plans to attend a French college.
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The avant-garde aspect of such texts outraged the Neoclassical author Duiliu Zamfirescu, whose comments nevertheless assented that Luca Caragiale did not lack poetic talent.
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From 1916 to the time of his death, Luca Caragiale worked on a distinct set of poems, probably inspired by a fond recollection of his stays in Sinaia: Dintr-un oras de munte.
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Luca Caragiale's father was journalist Alexandru "Sasa" Gherea, and her mother a native of Bavaria.
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Once Romania joined the Entente side and its southern areas fell to the Central Powers, Luca Caragiale spent time in Bucharest, the German-occupied former capital.
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In June 1918, Luca took the controversial decision of publicly rallying himself with the Central Powers supporters in Romania: probably instigated by the more politically minded Mateiu, Luca signed his name to an open letter which called on Conservative Party leader Petre P Carp to take hold of a hypothetical Germanophile cabinet.
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Luca Caragiale authored memoirs of his father's life, published in January 1920 by Ideea Europeana journal.
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Luca Caragiale was buried in his family plot at Bellu cemetery.
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Luca Caragiale was survived by his sister, who, after several failed marriages, became the wife of bureaucrat Petre Logadi in or around 1933.
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Luca Caragiale's son Vlad, who was a published novelist, died at Busset in 2006, by which time he was the last surviving of Ion Luca's descendants.