A joke as a genre of Russian literature. Kurganov E.

In terms of historical memory, the fate of the Russian joke is extremely complex and even truly dramatic. For centuries, they stubbornly tried not to notice him, actually ignored, and this applies to both the popular joke and the joke of literary. A joke as a genre did not exist.

Efim Kurganov, the author of several books on the theory and history of a literary joke, for the first time in philological science builds a pedigree of a Russian joke, shows how this genre bloomed in the work of Pushkin, Gogol, Leskova, Chekhov, Chekhov, Chekhov, Chekhov, Chekhov. Dovlatov. The joke becomes not just an artistic mechanism of individual works, but forms a whole figurative system of the authors, determines their narrative manner (or its manner of the story).

The reading of the book turns into an exciting research on the traces of a joke in Russian literature, in which The reader gets acquainted with the rare treasures of literary jokes collected by the author. The book is intended for both specialists and a wide circle of readers.