This article investigates the impact of the narrative model of Creangă on the prose of Ion Druţă. We analyze comparatively the relation between the character and the author, the narrative figures, the stylistic dominants of the stories „Childhood Memories” by Ion Creangă and „Horodişte” by Ion Druţă. The author focuses on the narrator cult, on his orality, paremiological erudition, brilliant instinctive sense of the language, on the pleasure of narrating and intrinsic elements of the narrative model in the tradition Creangă – Sadoveanu.