Short Stories and Theater - Ion Luca Caragiale

"The dramatic and narrative art of Caragiale can serve as a model for all times; and anyone who realizes the richness of forms, most of them perfected, of his stories, as well as the deep conciseness and incisiveness of some of them (for example, The Easter Candle), cannot hesitate for a moment to see in him one of the greatest literary artists of all time, and certainly the greatest literary artist of contemporary literature." Mihail Dragomirescu