Dark Laughter is a 1925 novel by the American author Sherwood Anderson . It dealt with the new sexual freedom of the 1920s, a theme also explored in his 1923 novel Many Marriages and later works. The influence of James Joyce 's Ulysses , which Anderson had read before writing the 1925 novel, is expressed in Dark Laughter .
2-450: Dark Laughter was Anderson's only best-seller during his life, but today he is better known and respected for Winesburg, Ohio . Out of print since the early 1960s, since the late twentieth century the novel has been considered a failure by some critics, including Kim Townsend, the author of a 1985 biography of Anderson. Ernest Hemingway parodied Dark Laughter in his early short work The Torrents of Spring . Hemingway's novella mocked
4-547: The pretensions of Anderson's style and characters. Gertrude Stein , his former mentor, objected to the young writer's parody of a writer who had helped him get published, and they had a falling-out. The novel was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. This article about an erotic novel of the 1920s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on
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