Creator of a complex, diverse and original work, starting with prose and verses, elegy, fable, sonnet, anecdote, serial, pamphlet and sketches, I. L. Caragiale masters drama art like no other. Plays like “A Tempestuous Night” (1879), “Cone Leonida faces the reaction” (1880), “D-ale carnavalului” (1885), “A Lost Letter” (1884), “The Calamity” (1890) constitute a perfect radiography of the romanian society.

His plays are a perfect blend between tragic and comic, realism and fantastic. Caragiale joins classic with realism, creating a drama language unique in our literature. His work has a great artistic value.

The tragic aspects of human experience are present in short stories: “A Easter Torch” (1889), “Boyer Sin” (1892), “During The War” (1898) and so on. Caragiale was also a translator. He translated “Beaten Rome” by Al. Parodi, “Hatmanul” by Paul Deroulede, “Cardasia” by E. Scribe and so on.

I. L. Caragiale created a work with characteristic features that make it unique in romanian literature's context, a work that contains three different universes: comic, tragic and fantastic.

Tragic and fantastic can be found in his short stories - “A Easter Torch”, “Sin”, “At Minjoala's Inn”, “Devil's horse”, “During The War”, “Kir Ianulea”, “Abu Hassan” while comic can be found in sketches - “Mr. Goe”, “The Visit”, “Telegrams”, “Bubico”, character and manners comedies - “A Lost Letter”, “A Tempestuous Night”, “Cone Leonida faces the reaction”, ”D-ale carnavalului”.

The author of the lost letter is also the creator of the sketch in the romanian literature and, at the same time, it's unoverfulfilled master. I. L. Caragiale has the merit of achieving the artistic perfection in a series of literary miniatures that show an extremely picturesque world.

Caragiale selected the heroes in his work from various environments: family, school, mass-media, justice system, high life or politics.

The writer, who said: “I only write about our life and for our life, for I don't know another one and I don't care about another one”, like T. Maiorescu and M. Eminescu, fights against verbosity, incapacity of thinking and upstarts.