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The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humour, Walter Redfern's book treats major French writers from the 18th to the 20th centuries as humorists, including Diderot, Rousseau, Sade, Huysmans, Flaubert, Beckett, and Tournier. He considers irony, hyperbole, wordplay, jokes, dialogue, humour as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008Oxford University Press · 245 pages · 9780199237579
French literatureHistory and criticismHumor in literatureLaughter in literatureFrench wit and humorFrench literature, history and criticism