Muertos de risade lo trágico y lo cómico en la China antigua
- Mamolar Sánchez, Idoia (coord.)
Argitaletxea: Liceus, Servicios de Gestión y Comunicación
ISBN: 978-84-9714-044-7
Argitalpen urtea: 2014
Orrialdeak: 201-222
Mota: Liburuko kapitulua
Laburpena
My paper consists on the analysis of two anecdotes from early Chinese literature concerning laughter which are, however, intimately linked to the most tragic dimension of life: death. Inboth cases, and considering the context in which these anecdotes take place, laughter is clearly inappropriate since it occurs in situations dominated by seriousness and circumspection. In my paper I shall try to offer a complete reading on the meaning of this odd laughter, transiting from the death of laughter into the laughter of dead.