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"Slapstick" as a book category describes works built around broad, physical comedy and exaggerated mishaps—pratfalls, collisions, mistaken identities and chain-reaction chaos—translated from visual form into kinetic prose. These books prioritize comic set-pieces, rhythm and timing, and vivid, elastic descriptions that make the reader feel the physicality of each gag; they emphasize action, absurd situations and resilient, often buffoonish characters over psychological depth. Slapstick relies on improbability, fast escalation, and repeated callbacks to sustain laughter and provide lighthearted escapism; it often overlaps with farce, cartoonish exaggeration, and screwball dialogue, and ranges from children’s picture books to adult comic novels where the laugh is the primary goal.

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