Silly Humor for Smart People

By Xavier Pérez-Pons

Compilation of eight books of absurdist humor, each of them integrated by a wide range of short stories, all well seasoned with large doses of what anthropologists call "idiotic thinking". The protagonist of the first is the Victorian ghost in all its forms: visible ghosts, invisible ghosts, mischievous ghosts, dancing ghosts, crazy ghosts, singing ghosts, giggling ghosts, disgraceful ghosts, ghostly ghosts.... The second addresses the mysteries of the paranormal, mainly by the hand of the Society for Psychical Research (inevitably, also here you'll find some ghosts). The protagonist of the third is Sigmund Freud in his awkward Viennese beginnings (there's no ghost here). The fourth plunges us into the Romantic era (there's a ghost around again). The fifth insists on the subject of the paranormal, this time located in New York City in the mid-1930s (more ghosts here). The sixth portrays the atmosphere that filled Paris during the "Belle poque" (don't worry, no ghosts). The seventh has as its main character a Superantihero who faces the gangsters and the political corruption in the New York of the mid-19th century (not a single ghost here). And finally the eighth delves into the secrets of Kabbalah by the hand of the famous wise men of Chelm (no ghosts but a golem and a dybbuk).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 171115587X
• ISBN13: 9781711155876
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"