8 février 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abdelhafid Gadhi, « Humour in M. Richler’s », Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, ID : 10.4000/books.purh.16442
This essay is concerned with humour in The Apprenticeship of Buddy Kravitz, and in particular with a special kind of ’self irony that is said to mark Jewish humour – i. e. an irony ’directed against oneself and against one’s community. In the light of this, this paper concentrates on the major themes of Richler’s humour by following them m their different manifestations, by examining the methods the author uses to achieve this humour, and by assessing its role within the structure of the nove...