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Original title: Der Lacher
Original languages: German

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Genre: Fiction→ General Fiction→ Humor→ Satire

This work is a subwork of the following works :
     18 Stories (1966) [Collection]
      Author: Heinrich Böll
     Short Shorts (1982) [Anthology]
      Authors: Ernest Hemingway , Franz Kafka , James Joyce , D. H. Lawrence , Anton Chekhov , Leo Tolstoy , Luigi Pirandello , Heinrich Böll , Octavio Paz , Katherine Anne Porter , Gabriel García Márquez , Yukio Mishima , Stephen Crane , Doris Lessing , Jorge Luis Borges , Sherwood Anderson , Guy de Maupassant , Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , James Thurber , Jerome Weidman , Isaac Babel , Gottfried Keller , William Carlos Williams , Heinrich von Kleist , Grace Paley , Marie Luise Kaschnitz , João Guimarães Rosa , I.L. Peretz , Giovanni Verga , Sholom Aleichem , Mikhail Zoshchenko , Varlam Shalamov , Augusto Monterroso , Paula Fox , Luisa Valenzuela
     Sudden Fiction International (1989) [Anthology]
      Authors: Yasunari Kawabata , Heinrich Böll , Nadine Gordimer , Bernard Malamud , Donald Barthelme , Gabriel García Márquez , Margaret Atwood , Doris Lessing , Joyce Carol Oates , Paul Theroux , Julio Cortázar , Italo Calvino , Jorge Luis Borges , Isak Dinesen , Mark Helprin , Monica Wood , Clarice Lispector , Josef Škvorecký , Stuart Dybek , Jamaica Kincaid , Colette , Bessie Head , Peter Handke , Barry Yourgrau , Bharati Mukherjee , Jeannette Winterson , Dino Buzzati , Peter Carey , Slawomir Mrozek , Luisa Valenzuela , Richard G. Brautigan , Ann Beattie , R.K. Narayan , Leslie Norris , Spencer Holst , David Michael Kaplan , David Brooks , Krishnan Varma , Kenneth Bernard , Patricia Grace , Panos Ioannides , Hernán Lara Zavala , Yuan Ch'iung-chiung , Rodrigo Rey Rosa , Talat Abbasi , Paul Milenski , Denis Hirson , Ron Carlson , Edla van Steen , Feng Jicai , Paulé Bartón , Fernando Sorrentino , Siv Cedering , Daniel Boulanger , Sergei Dovlatov , Barbara Alberti , Julio Ortega , J. Bernlef , Bai Xiao-yi