{"title":"Queneau contre les humoristes : pour en finir avec le « petit paravent humour »","authors":"Derek Schilling","doi":"10.1080/17409292.2023.2152585","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Raymond Queneau’s postwar reputation as comic author belies the suspicion the writer brought to a negativistic stripe of humor rooted in fin-de-siècle French cabarets and Jarry’s circle. In the polemical essay of 1938 “L’humour et ses victimes,” Queneau exposes the limitations of “perpetual humor,” which he claims must be replaced by a measured form of irony, the creative energies unleashed in Europe by Dada having long since run their course. The matrix of the Aesopic fable allows the essayist to lay bare, through the figure of gonflement, the crass self-importance of contemporary French humorists and to establish the grounds for a re-humanized space of creation wherein humor equates with wisdom, in Hegel’s sense of the end of History.","PeriodicalId":10546,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Contemporary French and Francophone Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2023.2152585","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, ROMANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Raymond Queneau’s postwar reputation as comic author belies the suspicion the writer brought to a negativistic stripe of humor rooted in fin-de-siècle French cabarets and Jarry’s circle. In the polemical essay of 1938 “L’humour et ses victimes,” Queneau exposes the limitations of “perpetual humor,” which he claims must be replaced by a measured form of irony, the creative energies unleashed in Europe by Dada having long since run their course. The matrix of the Aesopic fable allows the essayist to lay bare, through the figure of gonflement, the crass self-importance of contemporary French humorists and to establish the grounds for a re-humanized space of creation wherein humor equates with wisdom, in Hegel’s sense of the end of History.
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An established journal of reference inviting all critical approaches on the latest debates and issues in the field, Contemporary French & Francophone Studies (formerly known as SITES) provides a forum not only for academics, but for novelists, poets, artists, journalists, and filmmakers as well. In addition to its focus on French and Francophone studies, one of the journal"s primary objectives is to reflect the interdisciplinary direction taken by the field and by the humanities and the arts in general. CF&FS is published five times per year, with four issues devoted to particular themes, and a fifth issue, “The Open Issue” welcoming non-thematic contributions.