toward a politics of farce. the lebanese lesson

The period of the thirty glorious years of the Republic of Lebanon culminate in the war of 1975.Militias made up of emerging forces appear, with the corresponding geographic and social distribution. In response to the collapse of symbolic institutions, a provoking language arises, which had been foreshadowed in the literary creations of great authors like  Ionesco and Céline. The article argues that the Lebanese form of coexistence was able to withstand the disaster of war thanks to a change in the way of thinking evidenced in the register of the farce. Construed in this research project as a contemporary form of laughter, farce seems to be a response to the breakdown of ontologies in the postmodern period.