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 (Vintage International)
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)
Albert Camus
Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening. At the end of the awakening comes, in time, the consequence: suicide or recovery. In itself weariness has something sickening about it. Here, I must conclude that it is good. For everything begins with consciousness and nothing is worth ...more
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Albert Camus
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.
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

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