As a real agelast in a comedy, he is beaten. The beating of an agelast is the most important point of the comedy.
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Agelast
//ˈæd͡ʒəˌlæst//
Synonyms for "agelast"
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Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀγελαστής noun (one who never laughs)
French
2 entries- agelaste noun (one who never laughs)
- agélaste noun (one who never laughs)
Greek
2 entries- αγελάστρια noun (one who never laughs)
- αγελαστής noun (one who never laughs)
Portuguese
1 entries- agelasta noun (one who never laughs)
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Declaring with Doumergue that "Rabelais and Calvin (and Olivétan) were the creators of French literary prose,"²⁵ Bakhtin adds "Even the agelast Calvin wrote a pamphlet about relics with a certain comic overtone."²⁶ The single, and unusual word "agelast" summarizes the popular view of John Calvin: a person who does not laugh or smile; someone who cannot enjoy life or the fact that others might be happy.
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For Kundera, agelasts represent the opposite of the spirit of the novel; the novel is born from the sense of humor and not from theoretical thinking.
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Agelasts have a very clear idea that they have patent regarding both the truth and the mission and are so bloody solemn that they just cannot accept other views.
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