French Laughter

French Laughter PDF Author: W. D. Redfern
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199237573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor, 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, humor as philosophical speculation, and plagiarism.