Are there any? I'm looking for authors that never showed any humor in their writings. Before this thread gets rolling, I want to disqualify a few authors who frequently accused of being dark/depressing/humorless:
>Fyodor Dostoevsky He had a great sense of humor and frequently put intentionally funny scenes in his work. >Franz Kafka His work is full of absurdist humor. >H. P. Lovecraft He wrote four tales that are pure comedy. Also, Herbert West–Reanimator, one of his most famous horror tales, is intentionally ridiculous schlock. >Thomas Ligotti He's a deeply depressed anti-natalist, but many of his stories have a morbid sense of humor.
Probably some absolute dweeb like Kant. >Kawabata Trying to disprove this and I can't. Ditto this user though.
Ian Gomez
Alice Munro's story "An Ounce of Cure" was funny.
Levi Long
Ayn Rand
William Young
cringe
Connor Richardson
We have a winner
Ryder Robinson
i found some things funny in leviathan,im sure hobbes chuckled a few time writing it
Isaac Cook
Conrad? Faulkner?
Michael Thomas
Joseph Conrad is my favorite author, but overall he's pretty humorless. His novels have plenty of irony that could be considered "funny", but at no point does he ever really go for a laugh.
>>Fyodor Dostoevsky >He had a great sense of humor and frequently put intentionally funny scenes in his work. That scene in The Idiot with the dog being thrown out of the window made me laugh for 5 minutes