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  2. Absurdist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Absurdist fiction is a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, or other media that focuses on the experiences of characters in situations where they cannot find any inherent purpose in life, most often represented by ultimately meaningless actions and events that call into question the certainty of existential concepts such as truth or value. [1]

  3. Absurdism - Wikipedia

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    Absurdism is the philosophical thesis that life, or the world in general, is absurd. There is wide agreement that the term "absurd" implies a lack of meaning or purpose but there is also significant dispute concerning its exact definition and various versions have been suggested.

  4. Theatre of the absurd - Wikipedia

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    Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.

  5. Absurdist - Wikipedia

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    Absurdist may refer to: . Absurdism, the philosophical theory that life in general is absurd; Absurdist fiction, a genre of novels, plays, poems, films, etc. in which the characters cannot find any inherent purpose in life

  6. Surreal humour - Wikipedia

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    Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, thus producing events and behaviors that are obviously illogical.

  7. Wikipedia : WikiProject Books/List of books by title

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    Note: Titles that begin with an article (A, An, Das, Der, Die (German: the), L' , La, Las, Le, Los or The) should be listed under the next word in the title.Very famous books and books for children may be listed both places to help people find them.

  8. List of unpublished books - Wikipedia

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    His History of My Life (began as nonfiction) totals more than 4600 pages. Samuel R. Delany: Voyage, Orestes!, massive early mimetic fiction novel, both manuscript copies lost; a small excerpt was found and published in 2019

  9. List of English-language books considered the best - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English-language novels that multiple media outlets and commentators have considered to be among the best of all time. The books included on this list are on at least three "best/greatest of all time" lists.