HERMENEUTICS OF THE RIDICULOUS IN FICTION

Abstract

The hermeneutic analysis of the comic in the text is not identical with the reconstruction and revealing of the set of comic techniques, the restoration of the context and historical connotations of the work, but reveals its own ontological intention. On the example of a fragment of one of the classic humorous texts of culture, the article reveals the mismatch of ideas about the ridiculous as a substantial characteristic of the text itself or a purely psychological attitude of a person. The hermeneutics of the text reveals that the comic effect for the viewer (reader) is not a consequence of knowledge of the language features and the context of the expressions used. Laughter as a spectacle is revealed through the optics of understanding of the hermeneutic game, where the position of the interpreter and the object of understanding form the possibility of merging different horizons and discovering new meanings, laughing aspects. The hermeneutic meaning of the humorous in the literary text is revealed through its middle place of birth between the positions of subjectivity and objectivity in a peculiar hermeneutical game, which plays the hidden meanings of being as its own stake. A hermeneutical reading of the experience of the comic reveals its connection with the general attitudes of understanding the meaning and ontological nature of this experience.