Those who like to dive into book worlds, will agree that sometimes there is a desire to start reading serious literature that touches on important social and life topics. But sometimes you just want to relax and cheer yourself up with the help of literary creation. In such situations, humorous books become relevant.
Such works are incredibly popular, because thanks to comic tricks, funny storylines and charismatic characters, they create positive stories filled with light and good mood. Many books are just collections humorous stories, which are designed to distract from problems and charge with positive.
Do not look in such works deep meaning or something serious. They are created for completely different purposes. Many girls love to read love prose with a touch of humor, because what could be better than beautiful story love combined with comic situations and non-flat jokes.
The best books of this plan turn into desktop books and always play the role of an assistant in getting rid of melancholic mood and depression. Authors produce whole series of novels that are popular, but only those writers who have a very subtle sense of humor and can boast of excellent writing talent reach this level.
Humorous books are considered easy to understand and allow you to carelessly "plunge" into the world described by the author, filled with vivid emotions. Today, this category includes children's stories, detective novels, and even some classics.
Modern writers try not to use features of other genres in their work so that there is no temptation to move from comedy to drama. It should be noted that not all writers become recognized creators in the genre of humorous prose. Not everyone is able to create a high-quality story and competently frame it with funny elements.
Therefore, many young writers who try themselves in this field do not always release good things from under their feast. In any case, it is necessary to get acquainted with the works of eminent and popular authors, because their works are presented on our portal.
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Tired of serious literature? I wanted to read, but it’s better to laugh at your own pleasure, but you don’t know which book to choose?
There is nothing easier! Fancy Journal prepared for you top humorous literature of all times and peoples!
"Monday starts on Saturday", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
This book can no doubt be called a classic of humorous fiction of the Soviet period. Even for those who have not yet read this sparkling story, its plot is familiar from the beloved New Year's film "Magicians".
« Fairy tale for scientists younger age ”, which is exactly what the Strugatsky brothers jokingly called the work, it is read in one breath thanks to non-banal ideas and mild humor. Why does Monday for the characters in the book start on Saturday? Because happiness, according to the authors, is not in a thoughtless and unrestrained cycle of impressions, but in meaningfulness, in creative creation, and love not for oneself, but for other people.
Discworld, Terry Pratchett
An enchanting parody of a second-rate fantasy and news feed recent decades. Terry Pratchett himself admitted that the series was conceived as an antidote to bad fiction, but grew into a kind of journalistic genre.
« Flat world"today consists of 40 books, the last of which was written in 2011. subtle humor and philosophical reflections, without which not one worthy work of literature can exist, made the series very popular all over the world. Story based different books television versions were filmed, cartoons and computer games were created.
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
A witty and very sincere work, which, in the format of a diary, tells about the attempts of the funny and awkward Bridget to become the mistress of her own destiny. The disarming authenticity of the main character, her spiritual world, consisting of complexes, quotes from psychological books and attempts to find a man who "will love her for who she is," give great opportunity look at yourself from the outside. The special attraction of the heroine is that her femininity is invincible and cannot fit into the framework prescribed by feminism or other modern ideologies.
"The Sword Without a Name", "The Thief of Baghdad", Andrey Belyanin
Two series of books by a famous Russian author that combine similar adventurous plots. The main characters of the series become the chosen ones of other worlds, in which they must fulfill their high mission. IN " Sword without a name» artist Andrey ends up in the United Kingdom and saves its inhabitants from evil forces. In The Baghdad Thief, assistant prosecutor Lev Obolensky turns out to be a contemporary of Khoja Nasreddin and Omar Khayyam. The action develops dynamically and cheerfully, with many comic moments.
"Three Men in a Boat, Not Counting the Dog" by Jerome K. Jerome
This book is not one generation of people in different countries considered and consider it to be their desktop thanks to one feature - to raise the mood to the highest degree. If you also want to always have at hand a cure for despondency and bad mood - discover " Three in the boat, not counting the dog". In the book, three amusing English gentlemen set out on a journey down the Thames. Along the way, they will find themselves in comic situations and encounter hilarious misunderstandings, but British equanimity will always allow them to always get away with it.
"Legends of Nevsky Prospekt", Mikhail Veller
The famous writer's cycle includes stories told about people of different professions: military men and black marketeers, doctors and prostitutes, and many, many others. All stories are imbued with Mikhail Weller's inimitable sense of humor. The author's style is light and ironic, sometimes with hints of nostalgia for the recent past. Storylines unpredictable and fascinating, and the narrative is so convincing that anecdotes, historical tales and legends are perceived as a real reality.
"12 Chairs", "Golden Calf", Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov
Best humorous works all times and peoples. The inimitable character of the charming adventurer and romantic Ostap Bender has long been popular. Other characters are no less popular and loved. These books are disassembled into quotes: “Don’t teach me how to live”, “I am a man tormented by Narzan”, “Musik, where is my goose?”, and many, many others. The phenomenon of the brilliance of these books, written in the terrible 20-30s of the 20th century, has not been studied. Maybe the whole point is that in order to survive, you need to be able to laugh contagiously?
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Want to live long, love humor and short stories?.. Then do not rush to leave, because the shortest story, according to lovers of black humor, is an epitaph. I tried to transform this not too cheerful thought into my short humorous stories and funny miniatures light irony and sarcasm, so read them - they will only prolong your life. If short humor with irony is not to your liking, then read serious prose: - they are not long either ...
Anatomy of life
Anzhela Kuzikova rejoiced ... Of course! Now, after vegetating in the employment center and tedious searches suitable job, years of study in Humanitarian University The non-Chernozem region and the Central Russian Upland seemed to her already a fleeting and insignificant event of her past life. She was in seventh heaven with happiness - she managed to get a long-awaited job in a new city newspaper. There, at first, Angela dealt with the SMS-complaints of the townspeople, who came to this publication. She received them, sorted, processed and prepared for printing ...
Vanka Zhukov 2
Vanka Zhukov or simply Wayne Sukoff, a twenty-two-year-old immature, after paid and useless training at the volost business school of the county branch of the provincial branch of the new metropolitan Bubble-Blowing University, was given to people by his beloved grandfather, and ended up in a provincial metropolitan office, where he gained experience and comprehended the life of office plankton.
Wayne Sukoff was almost an orphan and was brought up in the village by his grandfather, but he looked like a smart kid and worked tirelessly. However, the rude office manager, part-time owner of office decoration and non-residential chambers, bullied him as he wanted, while violating labor laws and not paying overtime ...
Youtube star
That crocodiles do not fly, the baby learned from her grandmother, who soon died. A year later, the baby babbled in the gadget that her mother gave her, and the child really wanted to hear from this device "a little humorous story."
Time passed, and the cutie girl learned that there are not only terrible crocodiles, but also good domestic geese and ducks. The girl grew up, got to know the world, learned to pronounce words correctly, and now she liked to listen to short “hilarious stories” on the Internet ...
Labrador Petya
On this gloomy day, an albino labrador, nicknamed Pyotr Ivanovich, wandered deserted yards full of cars, looking at his feet and not paying attention to what was happening around him. And only crossing lanes and streets, he looked around, so as not to fall under the wheels of passing clumsy and reckless drivers.
Near one house, relatively new, with a landscaped yard, he drew attention to a high entrance porch with tiled walls. Several inscriptions were clearly visible on them, applied with a blue aerosol, among which two stood out: “Vanya is bullshit ...” and “SAM LOH!” ...
national question
Karavaykin-son asks Karavaykin-father:
Dad, dad, is it true that we are descended from monkeys, huh?
Who told you that, son?
Romka Abramovich from our class.
Dad scratched the back of his head and says:
True, son, true ... We all descended from them: Jews, Georgians, Russians, Uzbeks, and Kyrgyz ... Everything!
And the son does not lag behind him: - And how is it, how?! ..
wedding donkey
Lepekhin always recalled his childhood when he heard one eastern name or an old anecdote about an old man from a distant village who was going to travel by train to his relatives in the city with his beloved donkey. The old man, along with the donkey, was not allowed into the carriage, of course. Then he tied the obedient animal to the last carriage. And when the train arrived a day later at the desired station, the old man went to the tail of the train for his donkey. But instead of him I saw on the rope only one donkey's head with protruding ears and big eyes bulging with horror and madness ...
About love, sex and plagiarism
Late in the evening Karavaikin-son began to look closely at Karavaikin-father and noticed that today dad good mood asked him:
What is the difference between love, attraction and just sex?
Karavaikin-father looked at his son in bewilderment and, remembering that his offspring had turned sixteen in the spring, answered, restraining himself from displeasure: - And why do you need this?
They gave such a topic for an essay, - Karavaykin-son calmly answered ...
Optimistic Tragedy 2
This was not a fat-assed vixen from a TV channel for the visually impaired fans of serials, and not a blond lahoudra with fake tits ala Pamela from WhatDamn, or even bitchy Clash-Bi with a flesh-colored latex ass from WhatDamn-Plus. And this was a natural burly woman, and she, like a statue of stoutness, towered on the main square of the Earth.
She looked proudly, but not too purposefully, into the distance, because she knew for sure that most admirers of portly women ...
unity day
Sidorov woke up with a heavy head.
“Apparently, he overslept…” he thought, but, looking at the ticking alarm clock, he muttered: “Yes, no, it looks like he didn’t oversleep…”
Before waking up, he had an amazing dream... In the supermarket, he saw three-liter cans of vodka, in which pimply cucumbers were appetizingly green.
“Only in a dream can you dream of vodka in three-liter jars, and even with pickles... ”- Sidorov soberly reasoned and even neighed quietly, like a horse from the smell of juicy hay ...
dog thoughts
Pyotr Ivanovich loved new year holidays… Garbage cans were emptied less often these days - they were overflowing and looked richer than at other times. And it was not yet necessary to scour for a long time - it was possible to profit from something without much effort.
Running along the slushy path, he stopped near a familiar house. There was a police car and a small group of onlookers nearby, discussing something. Soon an ambulance drove up to this place, and the intrigued Petr Ivanovich approached the people ...
God's gift
Hello dear President!
A resident of our and your country writes to you. A long time ago, when I lived in my native village called Bolshaya Derevnya and worked as a groom at the state farm “The Way to Communism,” I wrote to your grandfather, dear Leonid Ilyich, in Moscow.
The state farm no longer exists - the state farm has died, like our village ... We now live in the city, as they say right now, in New Moscow ... That's right! .. Everything, as our grandfathers said, came true: “Moscow is a Big Village!”
Thanks to you and your grandfather - we are now “Muscovites” and we have nothing to do with communism, you can say that it’s within easy reach, just spit! about this - I want to talk about our infection, about this very corruption that does not allow the people to breathe. I was especially outraged by the last case about the bribe of your minister in dollars for 20 kilos...
The Tale of Kuzma Mamai
Previously, back in Soviet times, Apollon Petrov worked as a journalist in a newspaper, and then as an editor in a book publishing house, so he knew the price artistic word in all senses.
Now, already retired, Apollon Petrov, under the pseudonym Kuzma Mamai, published on the Internet couplets, quatrains and aphorisms, flavored with a mother, without receiving any fees for his verbal arts, but at the same time experiencing great moral satisfaction.
“Brevity is the sister of talent, and mate is its big brother! "- now Petrov was saying ...
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On the genre of short humorous stories
Small, short stories, irony as a stylistic figure, and ironic prose itself are an expression of mockery or slyness through allegory, when a word or statement acquires in the context of speech a meaning that is opposite to their literal meaning or denies it.
Humor - special kind comic, combining mockery and sympathy, externally comic interpretation and internal involvement in what seems ridiculous. In contrast to the "destructive laughter" of satire and the "laughter of superiority" (including irony), in humor, under the guise of funny lies serious attitude to the subject of laughter, and even the justification of the “eccentric”, which provides humor with a more holistic reflection of the essence of the phenomenon. Such humor, such irony, as a rule, is contained in small, short stories of ironic prose.
But about self-irony in encyclopedic dictionaries there is almost nothing, but I believe that everything is already clear here. In fact, this is the same irony, but only directed at yourself. Although most often self-irony, as an expression of one's attitude to one's own personality in every sense, rarely sounds aloud, and if it does, as a rule, without witnesses.
Both a sense of humor and self-irony, especially spoken aloud, are undoubtedly higher than ordinary irony, which sometimes turns into causticity. There are many shades of humor and self-irony, but similar human qualities is present far from many people ... It's like a talent, like a special gift.
Forms of expression of all this wealth human culture enough: these are catchphrases, sayings, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes, miniatures, short stories, short stories, novels, novels ... There are enough examples, samples, one might say, standards of such creativity - it makes no sense to list them all. True, there are clearly expressed forms and delightful places in such works as, for example, the novels of Ilf and Petrov, small, short stories by Averchenko, Zoshchenko, and more deeply hidden texts, but no less charming for the reader, as, for example, in the works of Babel or Andrey Platonov. In my opinion, all these concepts do not require an encyclopedic definition ... Here, as they say, everything is clear to the hedgehog. Irony with humor - friends, so they cannot live without each other. They are like a sandwich, like bread and butter - always together, and if there is also a thin layer of self-irony, then it is almost like caviar in addition to this sandwich - extraordinary yummy!
As the main character said famous movie"The same Munchausen", " smart face- this is not a sign of intelligence. Smile, gentlemen!" The more a person laughs, the healthier and happier he is. April 1 is a good reason to start reading something fun, life-affirming and look for new ways to play a trick on others. of 10 books that will make you smile more than once.
Terry Pratchett "Trick"
Terry Pratchett "Trick". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
London, Victorian England. 17-year-old Turnball roams the city sewers in search of lost treasures. An unrespectable occupation, whatever one may say, but not theft. Once, on a dark stormy night, Turnball saves a young maiden with golden hair from two scoundrels who tried to take her away against her will in an unknown direction. How was the smart kid to know that this event was just the beginning of amazing and dangerous adventures in his life. Turnball is waiting for a meeting with the great writer Charles Dickens, the infamous hairdresser Sweeney Todd and no less famous politician Benjamin Disraeli. And the finale of the grandiose adventures of the young Londoner will be an audience with Her Majesty Queen Victoria.
Alexander Tsypkin "Women of inexorable age"
Alexander Tsypki "Women of inexorable age". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
In these stories, everything is strange, unexpected, but at the same time paradoxically authentic. This makes it easy, free and fun. Reading the book "Women of Inexorable Age", you will laugh. Sometimes it's outrageously loud. The hooligan lyrics of the charismatic St. Petersburg PR man and journalist Alexander Tsypkin deservedly outgrew the network success and popularity in the periodic media. This book will return the appetite for life, and maybe love for people.
Richard Feynman "Of course you're joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard Feynman "Of course you're joking, Mr. Feynman!". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
He was known for his passion for jokes and pranks, painted amazing portraits, played exotic musical instruments. A great speaker, he turned every lecture into an exciting one. intellectual game. Not only students and colleagues rushed to his speeches, but also people who were simply passionate about physics. The autobiography of a great scientist captures more than an adventure novel. This is one of the few books that remain forever in the memory of everyone who reads them.
Wendy Northcutt "Darwin Award"
Wendy Northcutt "Darwin Award". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
The Darwin Award is a virtual prank award for particularly impressive evolutionary gambits. In order to be honored with it, one must die in the most ridiculous way possible, or at least lose the ability to reproduce, thereby saving our gene pool from its desperate recklessness - or from its transcendent stupidity. American Wendy Northcutt - "chronicler" of the Darwin Award. Many years ago, after learning about this natural phenomenon, she began to document the stories of the winners, and subsequently created the famous website. Letters about the adventures of worthy candidates for the award poured in from all over the world. The most vivid stories are collected in this book, clearly demonstrating that the evolution of our species has a merciless sense of humor.
Manu Joseph "Serious Men"
Manu Joseph" Serious men". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
A poignant, biting, irreverent, funny and clever novel about India and Indian men. About male ambitions and inflated ego, about the battle of Indian bonds with inexorable progress, about quiet love and its strange consequences. Ayan - from lower caste people like him do not make their way to the top, they are forbidden to go there - by caste restrictions, poverty and lack of education. But Ayan is unique. Too smart, agile and enterprising. He has already managed the impossible - by the age of forty he is not only alive and well (which for an Indian man from a lower caste is tantamount to a miracle), but also works not as a rickshaw, not as a laborer for everything about everything, but as a personal assistant to a brilliant scientist, an astrophysicist with a worldwide reputation and unbearable character. But this is not enough for Ayan, he hatches a cunning and ambitious plan - to fly into the stratosphere of society. And his own son will serve as a launch vehicle for him - a boy who torments teachers with "wunderkind" antics.
Mikhail Zhvanetsky "Who am I not to drink"
Mikhail Zhvanetsky "Who am I not to drink." Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
Zhvanetsky is not a person, not a writer, not destiny, and not even a diagnosis. Zhvanetsky is how we see ourselves. This is an inoffensive truth told by the person we love. He taught us so well that we do not perceive him as a teacher. We simply say it in words that have long become ours. "That's what Zhvanetsky said." And you can’t get away from it, and you don’t want to. The book brought to your attention includes treatises written by the author after 2000.
Palam Greenville Woodhouse "Jeeves, you are a genius!"
Palam Greenville Woodhouse "Jeeves, you are a genius!". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
Encounters with characters English writer Granville Wodehouse's Palaam - with the lovable varmint Bertie Wooster and his highly experienced valet Jeeves, Aunt Agatha and Lord Emsworth, who loves pigs, Uncle Dynamite and Bingo Little - awaits with joy and impatience, like a date with close friends. The heroes of Wodehouse live in their own cozy little world, in which serious passions boil, cunning intrigues are weaved and bold matrimonial plans are built. These brilliant stories have been rightfully considered classics of English humorous prose for many years now.
Faina Ranevskaya "Mulya, don't make me nervous!"
Faina Ranevskaya "Mulya, don't make me nervous!". Photo: Maria Borodina, RIA PrimaMedia
“I often say out loud what others are afraid to even think”, “The most harmful work is for officials. No one else brings harm”, “According to career ladder it’s easiest to climb on your knees”, “Our hands are golden, they only grow out of w...”, “If there is a speed of light, there must be a speed of darkness?” In this book, not only unknown witticisms and aphorisms of Ranevskaya, but also her drawings, caricatures, caricatures.The great actress has always been famous for her sense of humor and sharp tongue - but, it turns out, she also had a sharp eye and a firm hand. They say the truth: talented person talented in everything. And although Ranevskaya herself admitted: “I love to draw, but I don’t know how,” this publication proves the opposite.
Alexander Malenkov "Red Cucumbers"
Alexander Malenkov "Red Cucumbers". Photo: RIA PrimaMedia
Anton Opushkin is an ordinary designer, a young man who goes with the flow of life. But everything changes in one day, when he falls in love with someone else's wife, and in one night, when he witnesses a murder. Can you afford the luxury of being normal when the world is insane? Will criminal aggression stand against the logic of an intellectual? How long do hallucinogenic mushrooms last? The author tries to find answers to these questions together with his hero. Bandits, special forces and a drug-addicted inventor do not make this task any easier, and danger, friendship and love fall on Anton from the most unexpected sides.
Vladimir Vishnevsky "Beloved, I know you're online"
Vladimir Vishnevsky "Beloved, I know you're online." Photo: RIA PrimaMedia
Vladimir Vishnevsky is one of the most quoted contemporary poets, whose poems and aphorisms managed to become part of Russian colloquial culture. Being one of those rare creative people, thanks to which the spirit of "akynism" still lives in Russia, Vladimir Vishnevsky, nevertheless, does not lag behind his time by a single step, and this time pleases his readers with his own Internet diary. A new book"Akyna" fully complies with the main laws of the network space: "Live to post" and "Understand and repost". Surrounded by the inexpressible Russian reality, the poet-improviser ironically over the ongoing events and the clichés generated by them.
Every person has episodes in his life when melancholic sadness, melancholy or depression rolls in, and at such moments the best savior is interesting book. Plunging into it, a person forgets about everything else, problems real world recede into the background. Good book- this is a lifeline in the ocean of life's unrest, and an interesting and funny book even more so, and if we paraphrase the words of Bernard Werber, we can say: "A book is like a sword, humor is like a shield." Let's strike with a good book on longing and bad mood and defend ourselves with humor from all life's vicissitudes!
A sense of humor is a very subjective concept, so all the tops of the best, ratings and others comparative actions obviously doomed to condemnation, because 100% of the same opinions about one work do not exist, and even more so about a funny book. The most objective in this case is time-tested, so below is a list of works from this category.
A play in verse
This work is literally every second column stretched by readers into quotations. "The Tale of Fedot the Archer, a daring fellow" was written in 1985 by a Russian author based on the well-known children's fairy tale "Go there - I don't know where." The play in verse instantly won the hearts of readers with its inimitable style in the spirit of a parody of a folk tale with classic plot and an old style in a modern manner makes it unique and relevant at all times. This is one of the few books that, even in audio format, does not lose its spark and zest.
In 2008, a cartoon for adults based on this work was filmed, which is very accurately intertwined with the idea and manner of presenting Filatov. The whole essence of interpersonal relations, politics and moral values is shown in "The Tale of Fedot the Sagittarius, a daring fellow", which will be just as modern, relevant, interesting and funny for more than a dozen years.
The plot is quite simple and ordinary, as in all folk tales: an evil king, good fellow and beauty. The king, wanting to get his beloved Fedot, gives him difficult tasks in order to live out of the world. But as you know, in fairy tales, good always triumphs over evil.
"My Family and Other Beasts" by Darrell Gerald
This is an autobiographical story that tells about several years of the author's residence on the island of Corfu. The story is told from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy who would later become an outstanding naturalist and biologist. His large family, each member of which has his own "cockroaches in his head", and their living together against the backdrop of these differences - that's the main plot.
Most members of large families will see themselves in this funny book: the most interesting thing is that the situations are ordinary, but the author's presentation of the plot, dialogues and small parts is such that you want to re-read it again and again, realizing that somewhere there are the same crazy and reckless families, and from this yours no longer seems to be flawed and inadequate. The author very simply, skillfully and unobtrusively immerses the reader in colorful world plant and animal kingdoms, weaving it all with stories about their relatives, spicing it up with an amazing gravy of humor and fun. And also "My family and other animals" - people love animals and nature in general, it is very touching and sincere.
"Notes of the Shashlik Cat"
An unusual creation by Alex Exler, in which the story is told from the perspective of a cat with a strange name: his cynical view of what is happening is sometimes too harsh and subjective. After reading this book, many of your pet's actions become more understandable and obvious, despite all the comedy of the situation, and the mood will definitely increase a hundred times from the sarcastic tirades of Shashlik. From the very first lines it becomes clear that the cat is still a fruit, arrogant, ungrateful, but he is a Cat! Divine being of the highest order. And in the process of reading, there will be a change in attitude towards him from indignation at frankly low actions to tenderness and touchingness several times.
Although some readers responded differently to Exler's book: low-grade tavern humor bordering on vulgarity, propaganda of laziness and drunkenness in the form of a cat owner, absolutely not funny situations and lack of morality. But not all the works of writers need to be in the spirit of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky - sometimes light reading on a day off or during a vacation will give a person more than volumes of great classics. This is again a subjective thing, so it's better to read and draw your own conclusion than to be limited to the opinions of others.
Brilliant works of Ilf and Petrov
"The Twelve Chairs" is a unique book. It belongs to those works that are in the “eternal” column: each generation of readers finds in them a reflection of their time, despite the fact that the first book was written in 1927. The young charismatic adventurer Bender and his ward Kisa are looking for diamonds hidden in one of 12 chairs, their adventures on this wave are served under such an amazing sauce of humor and satire that even the most cynical critic will not resist.
Quotes from this creation wander among the people, while not everyone knows their origin and authors: “The ice has broken, gentlemen”, “Don’t teach me how to live”, “Famous”, “How much is opium for the people”, “Or maybe you still give the key to the apartment where the money is, ”and many other amazingly strong and capacious phrases that are used all the time. The book is a must-read for everyone, as a powerful cleaning agent it cleanses the mind, washing out limitations and stereotypes from there.
"The Golden Calf" - a book by the same authors, is a continuation of the adventures of Ostap Bender, who now competes with two more "sons of Lieutenant Schmidt" and is trying to steal other people's wealth with cunning and tricks. This novel is also full of famous catchphrases: "An idiot's dream came true", "I will command the parade", "I would take parts, but I need it right away." The book "The Golden Calf" is simply filled with amazingly sharp words and remarks that are not immediately noticeable to an inexperienced reader.
"All Red"
Despite the fact that this work is most often referred to as detectives, it reads like an excellent ironic novel with elements of the grotesque. According to the plot, a young man is killed at a party, who is trying to warn the hostess of fun about something extremely important, of course, she does not have time, but she herself main character becomes the object of persecution and assassination attempts, most often unsuccessful. The whole canvas of the work is saturated with amazingly subtle humor, hilarious situations, interspersed with discoveries about the real essence of a person.
The author of the novel does not consider his creation to be a masterpiece or worthy of standing on the same shelf with Gogol or Chekhov, it is rather homemade reading under a blanket on an autumn day - to cheer up, get rid of melancholy and laziness. The work belongs to the funniest books of our time, despite the tragic plot.
Trilogy by Mikhail Uspensky
"The Adventures of Zhikhar" is a modern fantasy in the spirit of folklore with an admixture of humor, witticisms and modern slang. The red-haired Zhihar is friends with King Arthur himself (neither more nor less) and the Chinese Liu, with them he finds himself in various situations on which the book is based. A heap of extraordinary and frankly fabulous accents in the form vehicle sorcerer, flights to the moon, pagan Baba Yaga, Leshy and Vodyany, mixed with the modern train of thought, words and actions of the protagonist, gives rise to a kind of mess, which only somehow calms down by the middle of the novel and shows the main essence.
At the same time, it is useless to wait for subtle "British" humor - here everything is in our own way, in a simple way, backhanded and backhanded. Therefore, lovers of subtleties consider this trilogy to be low-grade garbage at the level of Dontsova.
But folk tales also, few people compare with the classics, but they occupy a place of honor in every family and are rightfully considered the first teachers. Therefore, perhaps one should not demand much from modern fantasy tales, allowing them to simply spend the evenings with readers, because any smile and laughter prolong life, no matter from reading Gogol's "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka" or Mikhail Uspensky's "The Adventures of Zhikhar".
The most popular work of the Czech author
The first mention of the name of the author of this work immediately gives rise to one association - the soldier Schweik. "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik" by Yaroslav Hasek has long become a classic modern literature: the adventures of an unsightly little man in a filthy overcoat and worn out boots, walking along the military road from one incidental situation to another, but not losing his optimism and breadth of soul, will make even the most severe and experienced reader smile. Sharp satire to tears, reminiscent of soldiers' tales around a campfire under a pile, and the call to stop all wars that runs through the whole novel make this novel worthy of respect and recognition. Great in its simplicity, accessible to any level of understanding, Hasek's novel has won millions of hearts around the world, and his talkative character has become a symbol of ingenuity and kind primitiveness.
The adventures of the good soldier Schweik begin with the fact that he was disqualified due to "the poverty of the mind", but during the First World War he was again drafted into the army for extras, or as they like to say now. On the way to the front line, the brave soldier is bothered by representatives of different strata of society, they are twisted as they want, but he inexorably continues to move forward, towards obvious death.
Sarcasm seasoned with nostalgia and sadness
"Legends of Nevsky Prospekt" is a collection of stories that tells about the life in the city of Leningrad in the 20th century of ordinary, unremarkable people: doctors, speculators, military men, and even women lung behavior. In a sharp satirical form with a large share of sarcasm, the life and customs of the people of that time are depicted, the mentality of Russia shines through in every story, there is often a feeling that the characters are familiar people: a neighbor or work colleague, a friend's uncle or brother's wife. It is this realism of the characters that makes you live the moments described in the book in a special way, there is a feeling of bitter reality and truthfulness of what is happening in the spirit of "I was there too." After all, all the stories described in the book seem to be impossibly real.
The book was first published in 1993 and since then Mikhail Veller has gained immense popularity among the Russian-speaking population. Laughter at the top of its voice is about the "Legends of Nevsky Prospekt", so it is ideal for long winter evenings and pleasant companies. For those who do not know how to laugh at themselves, the book is contraindicated: it will cause nothing but disgust for the world and people.
Fantasy novel by Adams
According to the BBC, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is ranked fourth in the list of the most popular, and the creator is considered one of the best contemporary science fiction writers. The book consists of several parts, the first of which was written in 1979. In the first three months, 250 thousand copies were sold, followed by four more parts of the book, and in 2005 the novel was filmed. This is truly a sensation in the world of science fiction!
The plot of the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is based on the intergalactic travels of the loser Arthur Dent, who suddenly learns that the planet Earth must be destroyed by hostile alien creatures, and his friend, whom he has known for many years, is also an alien. Moments before Earth's destruction, he and a friend find themselves on a starship.
If you start reading the novel, it will initially seem that absurdity is built on absurdity, gives rise to absurdity on the verge of madness and a complete lack of logic, the world in the novel seems so strange, but painfully real, and against the background of general madness, deep philosophical thoughts about the Cosmos, about its habitability: other races and life forms. Many of the funny moments in the book are impossible to understand without some knowledge of physics, so it makes sense to keep a reference book handy. And all these factors are mixed with jokes and comic situations to colic in the stomach and Homeric laughter.
Inimitable English humor
The English writer Pelem Wodehouse created a whole series of comedy novels and stories "Jeeves and Wooster" about the adventures of an English aristocrat, a confirmed bachelor, and his ubiquitous valet. The first story was written back in 1916, and the story was periodically updated with stories until 1974. The novels were the inspiration for a British TV series starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry that still serves as an example of a good comedy film to this day.
The stories are based on funny and embarrassing situations, mostly with women trying to marry a young aristocrat: they get narrow-minded, but brilliantly educated Wooster, from whom he is saved by the resourceful valet Jeeves. For example, in the novel "That Inimitable Jeeves", Wooster's best friend, Bertie, is woven into the plot, who is too greedy for women: he decides to marry a waitress from a bar, bypassing the opinion of aristocratic relatives, against this background of Bertie Wooster's attempt to get rid of importunate attempts to marry themselves on the next girl seem even more ridiculous. As always, the amazingly erudite Jeeves comes to the rescue, deftly resolving the situation one by one.
Exquisite Slim English humor combined with unobtrusiveness and delicacy, without deep philosophical and rhetorical heaps, does credit to the author, whose books are rightfully considered one of the funniest books in British literature.
Finally
The ones listed above are not all of the most funny books worth reading, but only the subjective opinion of the author. There is also a huge list of works worthy of the reader’s attention, but with more diverse taste preferences: since those who prefer Olga Gromyko’s novels are unlikely to be interested in the highlights of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s humor, and lovers of “How to Live with a Neurotic Dog” or the works of Slava Se will not always delve into into a subtle veil of refined irony in " dog heart"And the works of Viktor Pelevin (who is still a comedian!).
A sense of humor, like a sense of tact, is subjective for everyone, and therefore people will be confused by different things, sometimes completely opposite and incomprehensible to others. Therefore, we will not impose thoughts, but let the reader make a personal choice. And most importantly: smile, gentlemen, smile!
