When it comes to fiction, humor is serious business. If tragedy appeals to the emotions, wit appeals to the mind. “You have to know where the funny is,” the writer Sheila Heti says, “and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.” Humor is a bulwark against complacency and conformity, mediocrity and predictability.
The humor these authors embrace traverses the gamut, from sardonic to screwball, mordant to madcap, droll to deranged.By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai | The New York Times
Heller gave writers permission to be irreverent about the most serious stuff — the stuff of life and death. The Czech novelist Milan Kundera, who went into exile in France after satirizing his country’s Communist regime, told Philip Roth: “I could always recognize a person who was not a Stalinist, a person whom I needn’t fear, by the way he smiled. A sense of humor was a trustworthy sign of recognition. Ever since, I have been terrified by a world that is losing its sense of humor.
“I could always recognize a person who was not a Stalinist, a person whom I needn’t fear, by the way he smiled. A sense of humor was a trustworthy sign of recognition. Ever since, I have been terrified by a world that is losing its sense of humor.”Here, you will not find books stuffed with jokes. For the most part, our picks will not induce knee slapping. The humor these authors embrace traverses the gamut, from sardonic to screwball, mordant to madcap, droll to deranged.
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