Boundaries and laughter in the Chester "Noah's Flood"

Abstract

The collection of articles entitled The Boundary of Borders edited by Professor Tadeusz Sławek and published in 1992 remains one of highly inspirational volumes of texts not only because of a carefully chosen topic, which commented on the end of the Iron Curtain, but also due to the introduction attached to it by Professor Sławek. In the preface he invites us to meditate on “border as event,” since “the border, a line of difference, becomes a necessary part of human thinking” and the human selfpositioning in the world.1 The periphery is brought closer to the centre in the postmodern world,2 and even if the phenomenon of boundaries is not central to some text, boundaries, also those of laughter, as is the case with the comic Noah’s Food, deserve our closer inspection[…]