The Primorska storyteller Damir Feigel (1879-1959), for whom we celebrated in 2004 the 125th anniversary of his birth and 45th anniversary of his death, holds a special place in the history of Slovene humorous literature. Among the fifteen books that this critically not very well received but thematically and generically fruitful author published in his lifetime there is not one which does not pulse with comic energy, be it science fiction novels and tales, or war sketches and autobiographical writings. That his writing flows with the moist "humours" from which the word humour derives can be best seen from his short prose works. The paper looks at precisely this kind of work - the collections Pol litra vipavca (1911), Bacili in bacilke (1920), Tik za fronto (1921), Po strani klobuk (1923), Domače živali (1925) and Ob obratu stoletja (1931) - in order, through close textual analysis of its situational, linguistic, "drinking" or erotic humour, to sketch out a typological and thematic physiognomy of Feigel's urbane, polished, intellectual humouristic writing, his wise ironic muse of laughter.
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