Ad augusta per absurda
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Date
2007
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Through absurd to greatness
Abstract
Alphonse Allais's works are unjustly termed "funny" by some. His contemporaries regarded
him as one of the best representatives of nonsense literature. Today, thanks to studies based
on psychoanalysis, sociocriticism and more recent research on humour, his works can be
considered as partaking of a certain commitment. As a result, jokes could be viewed as an
aesthetic or political way to question reality and they could be reconsidered to be as highly
esteemed as the ideas of great philosophers like Jeremy Bentham or Friedrich Nietzsche or
the works of more "serious" authors like Jules Laforgue, Remy de Gourmont or Raymond
Roussel. To make the reader know himself and to understand the world through nonsense -
this is the paradoxical and original aspect of Allais'a works.
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Nonsense literature, Allais Alphonse, Humour
Citation
Studia Romanica Posnaniensia, 2007, vol. 34, pp. 275-293
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978-83-232174-7-3