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Humor Kundery – o kilku (nie)śmiesznych tekstach
Kundera’s Humor – about a few (not)funny texts

Author(s): Małgorzata Cieliczko
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Czech Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: laughter;ridiculousness;humour;comedy;Kundera Milan

Summary/Abstract: The article refers to the phenomenon of laughter present at the chosen writings of Milan Kundera. Admittedly, he combines both artistic and theoretical approaches to the laughter, Kundera (and the author of the article) is interested mainly the first approach, literary one. In Kundera’s books laughter appears in many different ways, therefore author intentionally quotes a lot to give the floor to the writer. Attentive analysis of the citations and whole texts allows her to propose two lines of perception of this phenomenon: as a coincidentia oppositorum (part one: The Antipodes of Laughter) and as a “language”, specific way of communication (part two: »Dia- logues« (full of) Laughter).

  • Issue Year: XV/2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 226-250
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Polish