The Feminine Character in Caragiale’s Short Story “Kir Ianulea”

Abstract

The fantastic short story Kir Ianulea outlines the literary topic of the devil married to a woman who is worse than him. In the everyday universe of marriage, the sacred entangles with the profane, without a division of the persona. Caragiale’s text is placed in Bucharest’s suburbs at the beginning of the 19th century, and the action is entwined around Acrivita, the hysterical wife, the abyssal and dark feminism, so bad that makes the devil run away.