Diccionario en tono de humor

SPANISH EDITION. Dante Gebel has at long last returned to his first love: the humorous sketch. His fellow Argentineans have long enjoyed a series of humor booklets titled, The Christian Key (or Linchpin), which were first published by the author in the early 1990s. Now, many years later, the author returns with his pen newly charged with all of the irony, self-critical humor and promise of a book that puts on no pretense of being didactic or serious and yet somehow manages to make us think.

The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as Don Quixote.

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In the time-honored traditions of humor in many cultures, the laugh comes from cognitive overload, an unforeseen juxtaposition, or exaggeration. Luso-Hispanic humor shares these traits, but is woven deeper into the fabric of the culture, and often is bound with dark and distressingly serious subjects. After all, the culture contains at least three