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Albert Londres (1884-1932) was a much-translated French investigative journalist, distinguished by the application of humour to serious reporting. His journalistic coverage was extremely wide (Europe, Soviet Russia, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, South America), as were his themes: war, revolution, racism, prison and asylum conditions, the slave trade, colonialism, sport. This study compares and contrasts Londres with other globetrotting reporters from France, Britain and the USA who deal courageously and innovatively with history in the making. The approach is historical,...

Cet ouvrage se propose d etendre le champ d etude du phenomene calembouristique beaucoup plus loin que ne l ont fait les enqueteurs precedents. A cette fin, il s organise de facon chronologique (depuis diverses langues de l Antiquite jusqu aux plus recentes exploitations du jeu de mots), et thematique. Apres la partie historique viennent des chapitres consacres au phenomene dans divers domaines de la vie sociale: litterature, presse, publicite, arts visuels. Des domaines peu etudies par autrui tels que la maladie mentale (y compris les lapsus) et la psychanalyse sont examines du cote malade...

The culmination of a lifetime's fascination with humor in all its forms, this book is the first in any language to embrace such an impressive span of authors and such a broad range of topics in French literary humor.
In nine wide-ranging chapters Walter Redfern considers diverse writers and topics, including: Diderot, viewed as a laughing philosopher, mainly through his fiction (Les Bijoux indiscrets, Le Neeu de Rameau, and Jacques le fataliste); humorlessness, corraling Rousseau, Sade, the Christian God, and Jean-Pierre Brisset; the aesthete Huysmans, in both his avatars, Symbolist and...

Nineteenth-century France spawned numerous 'fous littEraires', one of the most fascinating being Jean-Pierre Brisset (1837-1919). An individualist par excellence, he dismantled the existing French tongue, reshaping it to suit his own grandiose purpose, which was that of explaining the development of human beings from frogs and of their language from croaks. Continuous and ubiquitous punning was a unique feature of his writing. In this study, Walter Redfern examines such themes as the nature of literary madness, the phenomenon of deadpan humour, the role of analogy, and the place of...

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.