Part of a wider research project of interpreting Caragiale's works, the present paper aims at proving and illustrating the fascination of I.L. Caragiale not only with the material nature of the world, with the surface of the real, but also with its „Archeus”. The ontological crisis is revealed by the fact that the 'real' becomes in the end the degraded image of the thing itself. Nonetheless, this epicurean writer identifies an embodied musicality in the matter's absence of transcendentness and lack of meaning.