Author : W. D. Redfern
Release : 2008-02-21
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis French Laughter by : W. D. Redfern
Download or read book French Laughter written by W. D. Redfern. This book was released on 2008-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.