Write a text of at least 150 words, in which you argue whether or not simplicity is an obstacle
on the way to success, referring both to the information from the fragment extracted from Memories from Junimea in Iași by
George Panu (Until Creangă came to Junimea, the collectors and tellers of stories were the Slavic gentlemen and
Pompiliu, both Transylvanians. Their stories felt of this origin; written in a difficult language, by
often urban, their stories betrayed a kind of literary combinations that spoiled their charm.
Creangă’s great merit was that he wrote the stories exactly or almost exactly as they were
I say in the country.
When Creangă came to Junimea and read his stories by himself, it was a real celebration. I think
seems to have started his series of stories with Mother-in-law with three daughters-in-law.
Everyone then began to ask Creangă to bring more and as soon as possible. Then came the streak
The goat with three kids, Pungulita with two money, Dănilă Prepeleac, Santa Nichifor Coțcaru, etc.
What is the value of Creangă’s stories? And how does Creangă manage to be the best storyteller
close in the language of the people? Because we have to admit that if there is something charming in Creangă’s stories
it’s that country air, it’s those plastic expressions, for us completely from another language, it’s those sayings
naive, that dialogue of a primitive sincerity and those very naive and reduced acquaintances of the peasant.
Since Ion Creangă was a very smart man, very quick-witted, there is no doubt; but
his knowledge was not extensive. Creangă remained until his death the peasant from the village of Vânători near the fair
Neamțu, and everything he learned and mastered over the background with which he came to the city did not catch on, did not assimilate with
the dance. Apart from the knowledge acquired in preparatory school regarding the teaching profession, beyond
The branch remained what it had been.
This explains the success he had with the stories. If Ion Creangă became a cultured man in the sense
of us, if he had departed from the manner of habits acquired in childhood, he would have been a storyteller like all
the surtucari* of cities. On the contrary, culture not being able to dominate him and change his ideas, Creangă, who
he had at the same time a lively intelligence, he was able to reproduce in the language in which he had grown up the stories he
he had heard, without new habits and new language disfiguring them.
A folktale teller, to succeed, must get a country peasant to
narrate the story, and he should write it word for word; otherwise it is impossible as a thinking man
otherwise, who speaks differently, to be able to reproduce a language, impressions and images that are not from the background
his usual knowledge.
Hence the artificiality of most folktale collections. The late Ureche, who wrote
and stories, is a striking example of what I am saying.
Creangă had only to let himself be dragged by the living and imperishable souvenirs of his life in the country, for
so that his stories are almost like the ones you listen to in the sitting room.
George Panu, Memories from Junimea in Iasi), as well as to the cultural experience.
When writing the text, you will consider the following points:
– formulating an opinion regarding the issue under discussion, stating and developing the appropriate a
two arguments appropriate to the opinion and the formulation of a relevant conclusion; 14 points
– the correct use of connectors in argumentation, compliance with the norms of the literary language (norms of expression, de
spelling and punctuation), placement on the page, readability, compliance with the specification regarding the minimum number of words
