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." ...more

The Stranger
The Metamorphosis
Waiting for Godot
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Plague
The Trial
The Fall
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Slaughterhouse-Five
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Catch-22
The Castle
The Rebel
Endgame
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
1984 by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
100 Modernist Reads
101 books — 52 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeArea X by Jeff VandermeerRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Dreamscapes
109 books — 61 voters

Gabriela, clavo y canela by Jorge AmadoCapitães da areia by Jorge AmadoAlcools by Guillaume ApollinaireLe Professeur Taranne by Arthur AdamovPing Pong by Arthur Adamov
The Modernist 200 List
9 books — 3 voters
Waiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettThe American Dream & The Zoo Story by Edward AlbeeBirthday Stories by Haruki MurakamiNot I by Samuel BeckettThe Birthday Party by Harold Pinter
Absurd Theme
5 books — 1 voter

Clarice Lispector
And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand. ...more
Clarice Lispector

George Peros
How did we end up here? I ask as well; canned like sardines on sale, so tranquil and shiny, with dead eyes and open mouths, in oil without guts. Their only purpose: to wait. Wait until someone opens the can—or the metro door—to be eaten. But they don’t care. Why care? They’re already inside. Dead.
George Peros, URBANIMALITY: Fragments

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