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Abbreviations viii
Promises, Promises 1
The Laughing Philosopher: Diderot 8
Riff on Laughter 39
The Question of Humourlessness (Rousseau, Sade, God, and Brisset) 44
Riff on Dreams 60
Huysmans: Back-to-Front, and Backpacking 62
A Little Bird Tells Us: Parrots in Flaubert, Queneau, Beckett (and Tutti Quanti) 80
Blague Hard! Valles 105
Riff on Black Humour 118
Upping the Anti/e: Exaggeration in Celine and Valles 120
Riff on Politics 132
Drole de philosophie: Sartre 138
Bad Jokes and Beckett 161
Riff on Taste 176
Approximating Man: Michel Tournier's Play with Language 180
Inconclusion 204
Notes 211
Bibliography 233
Index 241
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Herman Simmons
reviewed French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier on October 03, 2015
French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier
Reading this book is akin to taking a graduate level course in Montaigne. And if you love Montaigne like so many of us do, it is a course well-worth enjoying.
Happy reading!
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