ON THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF LAUGHTER IN THE LITERATURE OF THE XXTH CENTURY

Abstract

The article deals with the attraction of the art of the 20th century to the paradox as a tool for understanding the absurdity of life. Paradox and laughter share their inherent structural ambiguity, pulsating ambivalence. Paradox and laughter are often a platform for the conflict of different logics - ordinary logic and “paralogy” (alogism). Consideration of the typology of objects of ridicule helps to reveal the paradoxical nature of laughter. At the same time, attention is drawn to two types of object: an integral system (institution, professional team, power institutions) and an individual person (in particular, an adventurous hero). It is interesting to study the paradoxical in the very fabric of a comic work. In particular, pleonasm is described as a component of the funny technique. It denotes a paradoxical contradiction between the necessary and the redundant in the description. Paradoxically, the two-dimensional texts associated with the laugh attitude, which are built on the model of the anti-genre, have a conflict-like nature: false panegyrics, anti-idylls, dystopias.