WHEN THE GESTAPO KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR: THE COMIC AND (DARK) HUMOUR (NOT ONLY) IN VLADIMÍR BORECKÝ'S PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The aim of the following article is to define the concepts of the comic and (dark) humour employing the work of Vladimír Borecký, a Czech scholar and author of the typology of the comic. The text focuses on various features and manifestations of dark humour in selected Czech anecdotes from WWII.

Keywords

• The comic — dark humour — absurd — Vladimír Borecký — André Breton — anecdote