![]() His existence is connected to events in the history of Bucharest which he occasionally references in his jokes. Among Mitică's traits are his tendency to generate sarcastic comebacks and sententious catchphrases, a Francized speech, as well as inclinations to waste time and easily find his way out of problematic situations. According to accounts, he was based on a resident of Sinaia, whom Caragiale had befriended.Ĭaragiale used Mitică as a stock character to feature in satirical contexts the biographical insights he provided are short and often contradict each other. ![]() Mitică is a male resident of Bucharest whose background and status are not always clear, generally seen as an allegory of the average Bucharester or through extension, inhabitants of Romania's southern regions- Wallachia and Muntenia. He is one of the best-known figures in Caragiale's 1901 collection Momente şi schiţe, as well as in Romanian humor at large. The character's name is a common hypocoristic form of Dumitru or Dimitrie ( Romanian for Demetrius). Mitică ( Romanian pronunciation: ) is a fictional character who appears in several sketch stories by Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale. ![]() ![]() ![]() The "real-life Mitică", in a 1909 cartoon by Ion Theodorescu-Sion: his derelict home vs. ![]()
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