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Absurdism
Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on the experiences of characters in a situation where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events. Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humour, incongruity, the abasement of reason, and controversy regarding the philosophical condition of being "nothing."
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Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything that surrounds them. A man is talking on the telephone behind a glass partition; you cannot hear him, but you see his incomprehensible dumb show: you wonder why he is alive. This discomfort in the face of man’s own inhumanity, this incalculable tumble before the image of what we are, this “nausea,” as a writer of today calls it, is also the ab
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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.
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― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
From November 11, 2012 to December 12, 2012, Author Benjamin R. Smith will be available to answe…more
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From absurdity to zen, esoteric to banal, fiction, non-fiction, This Is Not a Book Club for the …more
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Diese Gruppe befasst sich mit den literarischen Phänomenen, welche den Absurdismus sowie den Exi…more
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