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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. Surreal humour - Wikipedia

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    One example is Marcel Duchamp's Fountain (1917), an inverted urinal signed "R. Mutt". This became one of the most famous and influential pieces of art in history, and one of the earliest examples of the found object movement. It is also a joke, relying on the inversion of the item's function as expressed by its title as well as its incongruous ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. These 30 Famous People Mysteriously Disappeared And Were ...

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    Over the years, families desperate for answers, media frenzies, and fans who feverishly theory-craft have surrounded numerous high-profile disappearances.From wealthy heiresses lost at sea, to ...

  7. 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples - AOL

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    The post 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples appeared first on Reader's Digest. You've made a malapropism—and everyone from politicians to famous literature characters is guilty of errors ...

  8. 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

  9. List of satirists and satires - Wikipedia

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    American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting; They Live; Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration; The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion; The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler; Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity

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