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Absurdist fiction is a genre of literature, most often employed in novels, plays or poems, 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.
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Absurdist fiction posits little judgment about characters or their actions ; that task is left to the reader.
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Much of Beckett's work – including Godot – is often considered by philosophical and literary scholars to be part of the movement of the Theatre of the Absurd, a form of theatre which stemmed from the Absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus.
According to Martin Esslin, Absurdism is " the inevitable devaluation of ideals, purity, and purpose " Absurdist drama asks its viewer to " draw his own conclusions, make his own errors ".
Despite its reputation for nonsense language, much of the dialogue in Absurdist plays is naturalistic.
In other cases, the dialogue is purposefully elliptical ; the language of Absurdist Theater becomes secondary to the poetry of the concrete and objectified images of the stage.
Absence, emptiness, nothingness, and unresolved mysteries are central features in many Absurdist plots: for example, in The Chairs an old couple welcomes a large number of guests to their home, but these guests are invisible so all we see is empty chairs, a representation of their absence.
One of the most important figures to be categorized as both Absurdist and Postmodern is Samuel Beckett.
According to various authors, Caragiale was also a predecessor of Absurdism, and he is known to have been cited as an influence by the Absurdist dramatist Eugène Ionesco.
Absurdist and plays
The Alfred Jarry Theatre, founded by Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, housed several Absurdist plays, including ones by Ionesco and Adamov.
The plots of many Absurdist plays feature characters in interdependent pairs, commonly either two males or a male and a female.
Much of the dialogue in Absurdist drama ( especially in Beckett's and Albee's plays, for example ) reflects this kind of evasiveness and inability to make a connection.
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Several authors, including Ioan Petru Culianu, have drawn a parallel between Eugène Ionesco's Absurdist play of 1959, Rhinoceros, which depicts the population of a small town falling victim to a mass metamorphosis, and the impact fascism had on Ionesco's closest friends ( Eliade included ).
Formed in 2004, the Absurdist Theatre Society put on productions of Six on the Beach and 24 Hour Theatre Experience in 2005, and Fando y Lis in 2006.
Absurdist and characters
The characters in Absurdist drama are lost and floating in an incomprehensible universe and they abandon rational devices and discursive thought because these approaches are inadequate.
Likewise, the characters in The Bald Soprano – like many other Absurdist characters – go through routine dialogue full of clichés without actually communicating anything substantive or making a human connection.
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As the influence of the Absurdists grew, the style spread to other countries – with playwrights either directly influenced by Absurdists in Paris or playwrights labeled Absurdist by critics.
Absurdist and meaningless
Distinctively Absurdist language will range from meaningless clichés to Vaudeville-style word play to meaningless nonsense.
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Other international Absurdist playwrights include: Tawfiq el-Hakim from Egypt ; Hanoch Levin from Israel ; Miguel Mihura from Spain ; José de Almada Negreiros from Portugal ; Mikhail Volokhov from Russia ; Yordan Radichkov from Bulgaria ; and playwright and former Czech President Václav Havel, and others from the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Characters in Absurdist drama may also face the chaos of a world that science and logic have abandoned.
As in the above examples, nonsense in Absurdist theatre may be also used to demonstrate the limits of language while questioning or parodying the determinism of science and the knowability of truth.
It has a distinctly Modernist, Absurdist, Kafkaesque feel, especially with the setting in Prague.
More recently formed theatre groups include the Melbourne University Absurdist Theatre Society ( MUATS ), the University of Melbourne Music Theatre Association ( UMMTA ), the Throwback Players and the Union Players.
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