Humor v súčasnej severskej literatúre na príklade diel Jonasa Jonassona

Bc. Anna Faixová

Bachelor's thesis

Humour in contemporary Swedish literature in novels written by Jonas Jonasson

Abstract:

Bachelor’s thesis "Humour in contemporary Swedish literature in novels written by Jonas Jonasson" has focused on humour in contemporary Scandinavian literature. In the theoretical part, the term humour has been explained and there have also been three theories of humour together with the most eminent representatives analysed. Several Scandinavian authors, whose works have been labeled as humorous, have been selected and introduced. From the Swedish authors who use humour in their writings, the work of Mikael Niemi has been presented. Norway, in our thesis, is being represented by a young author of naïve positivism – Erlend Loe; Erling Jepsen represents the Danish literature and there is also Arto Paasilinna from Finnland. Humour, in our bachelor's thesis, has been further analysed in depth based on two works written by Jonass Jonasson - One Hundred year old man who jumped out of window and disappeared and Analphabet who could count. Jonasson' s debut has been praised with huge success: there have been millions of books sold and translated into tens of languages. With his humorous style, he is not afraid to criticise and to comment on history of the 20th century and the society in general. There has been a question posed to the end of our thesis whether it is possible to notice a new trend of the geriatric literature or so called geri lit in Swedish literature.

Abstract:

Bakalárska práca "Humor v súčasnej severskej literatúre na príklade diel Jonasa Jonassona" sa zamerala na humor v súčasnej severskej literatúre. V teoretickej časti bol vysvetlený pojem humoru a priblížené tri klasické teórie humoru spolu s najvýznamnejšími predstaviteľmi. Ďalej boli predstavení vybraní severskí autori, ktorých diela sa označujú ako humorné. Zo švédskych autorov píšucich s humorom bolo predstavené dielo Mikaela Niemiho, Nórsko reprezentuje mladý autor nového naivizmu Erlend Loe, z dánskej humornej literatúry Erling Jepsen a z Fínska Arto Paasilinna. Detailnejšie bol v bakalárskej práci rozobraný humor v dvoch dielach Jonassa Jonassona – Storočný starček, ktorý vyliezol z okna a zmizol a Analfabetka ktorá vedela počítať. Jonassonov debut dosiahol vo svete obrovský úspech: milióny predaných exemplárov a preklady do desiatok jazykov. Jonasson sa nebojí prostredníctvom humoru kritizovať a komentovať históriu minulého storočia a súčasnú spoločnosť. V závere práce bola nastolená otázka či je vo švédskej literatúre možné vidieť nový trend tzv. geri lit – geriatrickú literatúru.

Keywords

humor v literatúre, teórie humoru, Jonas Jonasson

Language used: Slovak

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 29. 5. 2014

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 18. 6. 2014
• Supervisor: Mgr. Agneta Ch. Alarka Kempe

Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor programme / field:
Philology / Scandinavian Studies