doi:10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.41

FEATURES OF THE COMIC IN LIU ZHENYUN’S NOVEL "I DID NOT KILL MY HUSBAND"

Research article

Kondratova T. I.

Chekhovskii A. M.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18454/RULB.2022.29.1.41

Issue: № 1 (29), 2022

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Kondratova T. I.

Moscow City Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

Chekhovskii A. M.

Moscow City Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

The article explores various forms and functions of the comic category in the novel by the modern Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun "I Did Not Kill My Husband", and provides opinions of modern Chinese critics about the novel, demonstrates a combination of techniques of satire, humor, irony, absurdity, and black humor. Instead of the presence of the qualities of a person indicated in their surname, the method of the significance of names used by the author reveals their absence. With the help of various forms of the comic aspect, a three-dimensional picture of the life of modern China is created, while the narrative about the life of a simple village woman turns into a detailed satire on the bureaucratic apparatus of all levels. The poetics of the absurd reveals many ridiculous features of the social structure and human existence as a whole.

Keywords:

chinese novel, liu zhenyun, "i did not kill my husband", forms of the comic, functions of laughter.

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