{"product_id":"french-laughter-literary-humour-from-diderot-to-tournier-9780199237579","title":"French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Walter Redfern\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor in all its forms, this book is the first in any language to embrace such an impressive span of authors and such a broad range of topics in French literary humor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn nine wide-ranging chapters Walter Redfern considers diverse writers and topics, including: Diderot, viewed as a laughing philosopher, mainly through his fiction (\u003cem\u003eLes Bijoux indiscrets\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLe Neeu de Rameau\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eJacques le fataliste\u003c\/em\u003e); humorlessness, corraling Rousseau, Sade, the Christian God, and Jean-Pierre Brisset; the aesthete Huysmans, in both his avatars, Symbolist and Naturalist (\u003cem\u003eA Rebours\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSac au dos\u003c\/em\u003e, and other texts); the dramatic use of parrots by Flaubert, Queneau, and Beckett; Vallès and \u003cem\u003ela blague\u003c\/em\u003e; exaggeration in Vallès and C d'eline (\u003cem\u003eMort à credit\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eL'Enfant\u003c\/em\u003e); the fiction, plays, and autobiography of Sartre; bad jokes in Beckett; wordplay in Tournier's fiction (especially \u003cem\u003eRoi des aulnes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLes Météores\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFive interleaved \"riffs\" on laughter, dreams, black humor, politics, and taste, carry the enquiry into questions of humor outside of the purely French context, enhancing a book that impresses as much with its vivacity of style as with the breadth and depth of its scholarship.","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47584725500055,"sku":"9780199237579","price":6959.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199237579.webp?v=1774957640","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/french-laughter-literary-humour-from-diderot-to-tournier-9780199237579","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}