HUMOUR, SATIRE AND LAUGHTER IN LUAN STAROVA’S NOVELS Cover Image

ХУМОРОТ, САТИРАТА И СМЕАТА ВО РОМАНИТЕ НА ЛУАН СТАРОВА
HUMOUR, SATIRE AND LAUGHTER IN LUAN STAROVA’S NOVELS

Author(s): Afrim Redžepi
Subject(s): Novel
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: humor; satire; laughter; poetics; novel; etc

Summary/Abstract: In this text we will explore the poetics of humor and satire in Starova’s modern novels; we will not only prove that fiction that reflects reality knows how to deeply criticize and re-evaluate the flaws of that same reality, we will not only prove that the novel is suitable genre for a comprehensive critique of reality, but we will also emphasize the need for research on satire and humor, which are not so explored in our country. Although humor and satire are different stylistic procedures, which generate new types of genres, as hybridized procedures, they are synonyms that within the text, along with irony, parody, grotesque, etc., we expect to function in a single aesthetic whole.The phenomenon of laughter will theoretically be determined as a product of the relation subject-object, meaning as an aesthetic relation, and not as an aesthetic object. Apart from the author and the work, the reader is also part of the aesthetic reach, so in order to realize laughter as a process, we will have to define it as an interaction of two actors: the funny object and the subject - the person who laughs. Everything will depend on the text, which in itself does not cause laughter, but there are cases when there is a deliberate intention by the author to provoke laughter in the reader.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 79
  • Page Range: 119-133
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Macedonian