Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Funny Authors

I am trying to come up with a list of writers who writes with extraordinary wit and humour. Here are a few (in chronological order):
  1. Aristoplanes
  2. Ovid
  3. Chaucer
  4. Shakespeare
  5. Pope
  6. Swift
  7. Voltaire
  8. Austen
  9. Byron
  10. Wilde
  11. Beckett
It's interesting to see that over the ages the methods of humour doesn't really change - it's always something about sex, making fun of someone/something, exaggerations or absurdity. Yet humour remains the most powerful way of criticizing someone or something.

Anyone can suggest any other funny authors?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Jose Saramago
I just finished his book, Blindness.

Kenneth

7:38 p.m.  

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