IRONIE ROMANESQUE, AMBIGUÏTES DE L’HUMOUR ET ECHOS DE RIRES DANS
LA FETE DE L’INSIGNIFIANCE DE MILAN KUNDERA
ROMANESQUE IRONY, AMBIGUITIES OF HUMOR AND ECHOES OF LAUGHTER IN
"THE FEAST OF INSIGNIFICANCE" BY MILAN KUNDERA
Author(s): Antoaneta RobovaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: Kundera; irony; humour;
Summary/Abstract: The article examines the mechanisms and functions of irony and the humorous devices and ambiguities in Milan Kundera’s novel “The Festival of Insignificance”. The syntagmatic, paradigmatic and intertextual forms of irony, as well as the strategy of mystification and the existential irony, are analysed in the light of the carnavalesque spirit of insignificance. The humorous effects of quirky incongruities and the technique of semantic relativisation generate ambivalence and reveal the echoes of the diabolical laughter defined in “The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”.
Journal: LIMBA ȘI LITERATURA – REPERE IDENTITARE ÎN CONTEXT EUROPEAN
- Issue Year: 2019
- Issue No: 25
- Page Range: 65-72
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French