Přijde gestapák na inspekci: K pojmům komika a (černý) humor nejen u Vladimíra Boreckého

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