Work and Pastime, Pastime through Work: The Humour and Irony in Short Stories by Shōtarō Yasuoka and Jaroslav Hašek

Abstract

The paper pursues use of irony and humour as literary means in short stories by a Japanese author, Shōtarō Yasuoka, and a Czech writer, Jaroslav Hašek, with regard to the high frequency of use of both irony and humour in their works and with attention being paid to unexpected similarities in biographies of both authors.

Keywords

• Humour
• Irony
• Shōtarō Yasuoka
• Jaroslav Hašek
• modern literature