Absurdist fiction

Anger is a form of communication that discloses important information about the obstacles oppressed people meet. For romantic period writers, anger was a cross of rational justice and irrational savagery, and determining its position in society and in their own work as a tool or weapon tackles them as a vital task (Stauffer 2). Anger often plays as a tool of truth, pointing out injustices, betrayals and false states of affairs and seeking to even scores. To this point, the romantic…

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

Absurdity in The Outsider Albert Camus, one of the eminent French novelist, essayist and playwright is often considered as a nihilist, or extreme absurdist who believes that life is senseless and useless. ‘The Outsider’, Camus’s first novel is a representation of his absurd thinking about the world. The use of the term ‘absurd’ in literature is a vehicle for writers to explore and represent those elements in the world that do not make sense and ‘The Outsider’ is one of the beautiful…

masculinity and that violence is used to instill fear. In many movies, violence is usually only used to instill fear. However, Tarantino’s use of violence does not follow the typical pattern, and he deheroicizes some violence in his movies. In Pulp Fiction, the use of violence is very casual in some scenes. This can also lessen the effect on the audience, allowing them to better cope with intense scenes. For example, after Jules and Vincent murder Brad and his friend, they take the third friend,…

becoming an oppressor or a heretic” (“Albert Camus Quote”), and the latter is certainly true for the protagonist, Meursault, of his novel The Stranger. In the novel, Camus uses his protagonist, through characterization and diction, to support his absurdist philosophy. Absurdism is the concept that humanity must survive in a world that is constantly hostile or indifferent towards them (Absurdism). Although Camus is famous for his belief in this philosophy, he shares it with another French…

the outlandish and the flat-out confusing. If you’re all about absurdists like Beckett, Murakami and Pynchon, then you need to get to a bookstore (or open Amazon in a tab if that’s your book-buying method of choice) because there are so many great books out right now that will make your mind melt. Between off-kilter realities, confounding characters and intricate word labyrinths, 2016 is shaping up to be “The Year of Strange Fiction” in the…

various interpretations, The Plague by Albert Camus is an example of a novel through which different levels of meaning are created within its pages. The book represents many interesting and contrasting levels of literary works containing both fiction and non-fiction, literal and figurative as well as concrete and metaphysical. Different readers of the novel have various understanding of the text depending on their viewpoints and believes. ‘The Plague is neither deeply rooted in the real stuff…

to allow the reader to fully appreciate the literature as well as characterizing the true essence of Kafka writing. Perhaps the most prominently grasped changes in this Kafka story is the direct changes within Gregor. Using his well known absurdist fiction exuberance, the reader is immediately struck with Gregor’s dehumanized transformation from human to bug…

Carissa Halston, a fiction writer, pointed out in her discussion about absurdism, absurdity and absurdist fiction that absurdity is a thing that is extremely unreasonable, so as to be foolish or not taken seriously, while absurdism is referred to as the state of philosophically as the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any Common elements in absurdist fiction include satire, dark humor, incongruity and the…

In the beginning of this screenplay, Mac is viewed as a person with a drinking disorder. In other words, he was an alcoholic. He would drink continuously, being unaware of the hurt he caused to his loved ones. He drank more and more as he tried to run away from his problems; he believed that drinking was the only factor that solved his problems. As he continued to drink on a regular basis, he lost everything from his wife and daughter to his career as a…