The Woman in “The Moments”

Abstract

The Moments appeared twenty years after his Comedies and many critical voices perceived Caragiale’s sketches as an inferior type of literature, not because of the change of genre, but due to the erroneous interpretation of the relationship between these short stories and the immediate reality, reproving the writer for his focus on the momentary, on the fugitive events which impregnate the text with an ephemeral character. Although the main character is the petty bourgeois, skillful in all, the female figures are not missing, on the contrary, they are desired and sought in "weakness". The world of the heroes and heroines of these sketches, be it the capital of the province, is mainly the city.